by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Nov 2019 | News
An Assyrian Christian has been named among the scores killed so far in nearly a week of protests in Iran over a sharp rise in fuel prices. Ashoor Kalta (Human Rights in Iran) Ashoor Kalta, 37, was killed on Sunday during protests in Fardis, near Karaj, according to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Nov 2019 | News
Amirsalar Davoudi (Center for Human Rights in Iran) A human rights lawyer who helped an imprisoned Christian convert with his failed bid for a retrial is now seeking a retrial of his own. Amirsalar Davoudi was sentenced in June to 30 years in prison for “collaborating...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 13 Nov 2019 | News
Left to right: Victor Bet-Tamraz, his wife Shamiram, Kavian Fallah-Mohammadi, Amin Afshar-Naderi, and Hadi Asgari. Yet another scheduled hearing in the drawn-out cases of five Christians facing between five and 15 years in prison was postponed today. Assyrian pastor...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 12 Nov 2019 | News
Siavash Hayati (Center for Human Rights in Iran) An Iranian follower of the Yarsan faith has been prevented from completing his university dissertation because he refused to deny his religious beliefs. Siavash Hayati told the US-based Center for Human Rights in Iran...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Nov 2019 | News
Two weeks after returning home from six years in prison, Christian convert Ebrahim Firouzi is on his way to the remote city of Sarbaz, 1,000 miles from his home, to begin two years of internal exile. Ebrahim, who will be 33 next month, left his home in Robat Karim,...
