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...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Jan 2022 | News
Hadi (Moslem) Rahimi has begun serving his four-year prison sentence for “acting against national security” by attending a house-church and “spreading ‘Zionist’ Christianity”. The 32-year-old delivery driver, who has a nine-month-old daughter, handed himself in to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 7 Jan 2022 | News
The lawyer of a Christian convert who has spent nearly four years in prison for “acting against national security” by being part of a house-church has asked what danger the release of his 60-year-old client could pose. Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh is one of the longest...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Jan 2022 | News
A 64-year-old Christian woman who has already served one prison sentence for “propaganda against the regime” has been summoned to answer the same charge again. Rokhsareh (Mahrokh) Ghanbari, who served four months of her one-year sentence before her release in March...
