by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Aug 2020 | News
An Iranian-Assyrian couple sentenced to a combined 15 years in prison for teaching Muslim converts about Christianity have finally been informed that their longstanding appeals have failed. It’s been more than three years since Victor Bet-Tamraz was sentenced to 10...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Aug 2020 | News
Left to right: Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh, Zaman (Saheb) Fadaie, Yousef Nadarkhani, Mohammad Reza (Youhan) Omidi, and Mohammad Ali (Yasser) Mossayebzadeh. There are concerns over the health of four Christian prisoners of conscience after one of them tested positive for...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 Aug 2020 | News
Ramin Hassanpour and his wife Kathrin Sajadpour, and Moslem Rahimi. Four Iranian converts have received prison sentences of between two and five years for “acting against national security” by belonging to a house-church and “spreading Zionist Christianity”. Ramin...
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...
