by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Mar 2020 | News
Amin Khaki and Mahrokh Ghanbari have been granted 36 days’ leave from prison. Six Christians were among the more than 54,000 prisoners released from custody in Iran over the past week, as part of efforts to limit the spread of the coronavirus. Article18 has...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Mar 2020 | News
Christian convert Fatemeh (Mary) Mohammadi has used her first social-media post since her arrest on 12 January to thank her supporters for their concern during her 46 days in detention. “I am grateful for all of you dear friends who have been concerned and followed my...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 27 Feb 2020 | News
Ramiel Bet-Tamraz with his parents, Victor and Shamiram. Dabrina Bet-Tamraz has informed Article18 that her brother, Ramiel, an Assyrian Christian and son of pastor Victor Bet-Tamraz, was released from prison yesterday. Ramiel was serving a four-month sentence for his...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Feb 2020 | News
Left to right: Victor Bet-Tamraz, his wife Shamiram, Kavian Fallah-Mohammadi, Amin Afshar-Naderi, and Hadi Asgari. Once again an appeal hearing in the case of five Christians sentenced to between five and 15 years in prison has been postponed. Assyrian Christian...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 12 Feb 2020 | News
Article18 can now confirm that Christian convert Fatemeh (Mary) Mohammadi is being held in Qarchak detention centre, south of the Iranian capital Tehran. It is a month today since Mary was arrested, as protests took place in central Tehran following the Iranian...
