by Steve Dew-Jones | 7 Jul 2022 | News
An Iranian Christian prisoner of conscience recently adopted by the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief has been denied parole for a fifth time. Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh, who is 60 years old, has been in prison...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Jun 2022 | News
After two years in prison and nearly two more in internal exile over 1,000km from his home and family – not to mention being flogged for drinking Communion wine – Mohammad Reza (Youhan) Omidi is finally free, at least for now. The 49-year-old, who begun...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Jun 2022 | News
Left to right: Maryam (Khadijeh) Mohammadi, Anooshavan Avedian, and Abbas Souri. A 60-year-old Iranian-Armenian Christian is awaiting a summons to begin his 10-year prison sentence for “engaging in propaganda contrary to and disturbing to the holy religion of Islam”....
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Jun 2022 | News
Photographs showing some of the Christian events that took place at the retreat centre, and of the confiscation order. A Protestant Church-owned retreat centre appropriated four years ago by an institution headed by Iran’s Supreme Leader is now in the process of being...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 27 Jun 2022 | News
Left to right: Ahmad Sarparast, Morteza Mashoodkari, and Ayoob Poor-Rezazadeh Three house-church members who have been held for over a month in solitary confinement have now been informed that their appeals against five-year prison sentences have been rejected. Ahmad...