by Steve Dew-Jones | 27 Apr 2021 | News
An Iranian Christian convert has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for “propaganda against the Islamic Republic”. Hamed Ashoori, who is 31 years old and lives in Fardis, west of Tehran, was verbally informed of the verdict on 12 April following his final court...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Apr 2021 | News
Iran’s Supreme Court is considering the retrial petitions for two high-profile cases involving Christian converts. The first relates to the prison sentences given to a 62-year-old man with advanced Parkinson’s disease, Homayoun Zhaveh, and his wife Sara Ahmadi, 43,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Apr 2021 | News
Left to right: Alireza Varak-Shah, Hojjat Lotfi Khalaf, Mohammad Ali (Davoud) Torabi, and Esmaeil Narimanpour. (MEC) Four Christian converts have been arrested and others summoned for interrogation by intelligence agents in the southwestern city of Dezful. Hojjat...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 15 Apr 2021 | News
(Photo: Mohabat News) Christian convert Majidreza Souzanchi has been released after more than three years in prison. The 37-year-old was released on furlough from the Greater Tehran Penitentiary last Thursday, 8 April, and has told Mohabat News he does not need to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Mar 2021 | News
A Christian convert with advanced Parkinson’s disease and his wife have been summoned to begin their prison sentences for belonging to a house-church. Homayoun Zhaveh, who is 62 years old, and his wife Sara Ahmadi, 42, received the summons on Friday, telling them to...
