by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 Jul 2020 | News
The family of an Iranian-Armenian house-church leader who remains in detention more than three weeks after his arrest have been told they must deposit 3 billion tomans (around $150,000) for his bail. This is twice the previous highest amount demanded to secure the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Jul 2020 | News
Iranian Christian convert Esmaeil Maghrebinezhad has lost his appeal against the two remaining prison sentences issued to him earlier this year. Esmaeil, who is 65 years old and an official member of the Anglican Church, initially received three sentences amounting to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 15 Jul 2020 | News
At least 10 of the more than a dozen Christian converts arrested two weeks ago in raids on their homes and house-churches have been charged with “acting against national security by promoting Zionist Christianity”. Article18 reported earlier this month that at least...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 13 Jul 2020 | News
Sixty-five-year-old Iranian Christian convert Esmaeil Maghrebinezhad has had his three-year jail sentence for “insulting Islamic sacred beliefs” overturned on appeal. Esmaeil was informed of the verdict yesterday by his lawyer, Farshid Roofoogaran. In the verdict,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 7 Jul 2020 | News
A 47-year-old Christian woman has been named as another of those arrested during a series of raids on the homes of Christians last week by intelligence agents belonging to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. Malihe Nazari, who is married with two sons aged 22 and 15, was...
