by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Nov 2022 | News
Left to right: Babak Paknia, Bahar Sahraian, and Mustafa Nili. More than 30 lawyers, including at least three involved in defending Christian converts, have been arrested in recent weeks in cities across Iran. The arrests come as thousands of protesters await trial,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Oct 2022 | News
A second Christian convert has been unexpectedly pardoned and released from Tehran’s Evin Prison just a day after the release of a 61-year-old man who had spent nearly five years in prison. Fariba Dalir’s release last night follows that of Nasser Navard...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 17 Oct 2022 | News
Christian prisoner of conscience Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh has been freed after nearly five years in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. Nasser was told earlier today that he had been “pardoned”. He called his family soon afterwards to tell them the surprising news...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 17 Oct 2022 | News
A fire at a Tehran prison housing hundreds of political prisoners, including a dozen Christians, caused widespread alarm on Saturday night, claiming at least four lives. Many more are believed to have been injured as a result of the fire at Evin Prison, whose cause...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 30 Aug 2022 | News
An Iranian-Armenian pastor has today begun serving a 10-year prison sentence for holding church services in his home. Joseph Shahbazian, who is 58 years old, was yesterday given 24 hours to hand himself in to the authorities at Tehran’s Evin Prison, and did so today...
