by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Jun 2020 | News
Left to right: Saheb Fadaie, Yousef Nadarkhani, and Youhan Omidi. Three converts currently serving 10-year sentences in Tehran’s Evin Prison have had their sentences reduced at a retrial, but they are still facing years in prison and exile. Yousef Nadarkhani and Zaman...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 9 Jun 2020 | News
Left to right: Khalil Dehghanpour, Mohammad Vafadar, Kamal Naamanian, Hossein Kadivar. Article18 reported last week that four Iranian converts from the northern city of Rasht had been summoned to begin their five-year prison sentences and given a deadline of 2 June to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Jun 2020 | News
Left to right: Victor Bet-Tamraz, his wife Shamiram, Kavian Fallah-Mohammadi, Amin Afshar-Naderi, and Hadi Asgari. Yet another appeal hearing in the long-running court cases against an Iranian-Assyrian pastor, his wife and three Christian converts was postponed today...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Jun 2020 | News
Left to right: Khalil Dehghanpour, Mohammad Vafadar, Kamal Naamanian, Hossein Kadivar. Four Iranian converts have been summoned to begin their five-year jail sentences for leading house-churches, for which they were convicted of “acting against national security”....
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 May 2020 | News
Fires have been reported at three sites belonging to religious minorities, including a Christian cemetery, in just a few days in Iran. First, on Friday, the director of antisemitism watchdog ADL, Jonathan Greeblatt, tweeted that the tomb of Biblical figures Queen...
