by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Jan 2022 | News
Iran’s Supreme Court has finally agreed to review the case of a Christian convert serving a 10-year prison sentence for “acting against national security” through his involvement in a house-church. Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh has spent the past four years in Tehran’s Evin...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Jan 2022 | News
Mahmoud Mardani-Kharaji (left) and his brother Mansour. Two brothers remain missing more than a month after their arrest at a Christmas gathering near Isfahan. Mahmoud Mardani-Kharaji, 53, and his brother Mansour, 46, were with around eight other Christians at a...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Jan 2022 | News
Habib Heydari (left) and Sasan Khosravi. Two Christian converts have been released from prison at the conclusion of their one-year prison sentences for belonging to a house-church, but one of them now faces two years’ exile. Sasan Khosravi, who is 36 years old, and...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Jan 2022 | News
Just two weeks after the release on bail of nine Christian converts, pending a review of their case ordered by Iran’s Supreme Court, one of them is already back in prison – thanks to a ruling by a different branch of that same Supreme Court. Abdolreza...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 12 Jan 2022 | News
Yasser’s son, Amir Ali, during his younger years. An Iranian Christian prisoner of conscience is mourning the death of his only child. Mehdi (Yasser) Akbari, who was a single parent, was informed on 28 December that his 18-year-old son, Amir Ali, who had...
