by Steve Dew-Jones | 14 Apr 2020 | News
Iranian woman convert Fatemeh (Aylar) Bakhtari has been told she does not need to return to prison to complete her sentence. The 36-year-old is the third convert in the past few weeks to receive such news, after Rokhsareh (Mahrokh) Ghanbari, 62, and Amin Khaki, 36....
by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Apr 2020 | News
Mahrokh Ghanbari (right) has been told she does not need to return to prison. Aylar Bakhtari (left) and Amin Khaki have had their leave extended by 15 days. A 62-year-old Iranian woman convert to Christianity has been told she does not need to return to prison to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 17 Mar 2020 | News
Clockwise from top left: Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh, Zaman Fadaie, Mohammad Reza Omidi, and Yousef Nadarkhani. Four Iranian Christians serving ten-year sentences in Tehran’s Evin Prison are being denied temporary release even though their requests for retrials have been...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 13 Mar 2020 | News
A Christian convert serving two years in internal exile in a remote southeastern Iranian city has had his exile extended for a further 11 months owing to an unauthorised leave of absence. Ebrahim Firouzi, who is 34, began his exile on 12 November 2019, just two weeks...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 Mar 2020 | News
Christian convert Esmaeil Maghrebinezhad has been sentenced to an additional two years in prison. The 65-year-old was sentenced in January to three years in prison for “insulting Islamic sacred beliefs”. Now, following a court hearing on 17 February, he has been...
