by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Jan 2020 | News
Esmaeil Maghrebinezhad, a 65-year-old convert to Christianity, has been sentenced to three years in prison for “insulting Islamic sacred beliefs”. He was sentenced under Article 513 of the Islamic Penal Code, which provides for a punishment of between one and five...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Jan 2020 | News
Twitter @Marymohammadii Christian convert Fatemeh Mohammadi has been arrested in Tehran and taken to an unknown location, according to the Persian-language news agency HRANA. The 21-year-old, who after her conversion now prefers to be known as Mary, was reportedly...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 9 Jan 2020 | News
All that now remains of the pastor’s unmarked grave is the soil under which he was once buried. The grave of the only Iranian Christian to have been executed on official charges of apostasy has been demolished. The body of Rev Hossein Soodmand was buried on the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 6 Jan 2020 | News
Ramiel Bet-Tamraz (centre) with his parents, pastor Victor Bet-Tamraz and Shamiram Issavi The son of an Iranian-Assyrian couple facing years in prison for their Christian activities has been summoned to serve his own four-month sentence for “actions against national...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 27 Dec 2019 | News
Asghar Salehi (left) and Mohammad Reza Rezaei (Middle East Concern) Three Christian converts have begun six-month jail sentences after they were convicted earlier this year of “propaganda against the system through promoting Zionist Christianity”. Asghar...
