by Steve Dew-Jones | 14 Sep 2020 | News
Youhan Omidi with his wife Maryam and daughters Sara and Sandra. Today, four weeks after leaving prison, Iranian convert Mohammad Reza (Youhan) Omidi journeyed south to begin his exile more than 1,000km from his home and family. Youhan, who completed his two-year...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Sep 2020 | News
Left to right: Kavian Fallah-Mohammadi, Amin Afshar-Naderi, and Hadi Asgari. Three Iranian Christian converts whose appeals against a combined 35 years in prison were recently rejected want to let their supporters know they are safe and well outside the country. The...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Aug 2020 | News
Iranian-Armenian Christian Joseph Shahbazian has been released on bail after nearly two months in detention. The 56-year-old was one of dozens of Christians arrested by Revolutionary Guards in a coordinated operation targeting homes and house-churches in Tehran, Karaj...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Aug 2020 | News
The wife and son of an Iranian-Armenian Christian who remains in detention seven weeks after his arrest were able to visit him for the first time on Tuesday. Joseph Shahbazian was said to be in good health, though unshaven and therefore scruffier than usual in...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Aug 2020 | News
Article18 can now confirm that Iranian-Assyrian Christians Victor Bet-Tamraz and Shamiram Issavi fled Iran on Saturday, hours before Shamiram was due to begin her five-year prison sentence. The couple’s daughter, Dabrina, told Article18 that while she does not wish to...
