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...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Jul 2020 | News
At least 12 Christians have been arrested by intelligence agents belonging to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in a coordinated operation across three cities. The arrests took place on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning in Tehran, its sister city Karaj, and Malayer,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Jun 2020 | News
L to R: Pooriya Peyma, Fatemeh Talebi, Maryam Falahi, Sam Khosravi, Habib Heydari, Sasan Khosravi, Marjan Falahi. Seven Christian converts in the south-western Iranian city of Bushehr have been given sentences ranging from prison and exile to work restrictions and...
