by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Oct 2019 | News
Left to right: Yaghoob Nateghi, Milad Goodarzi, Amin Khaki, Alireza Nourmohammadi and Shahab Shahi. Four converts have completed their jail sentences and returned home. A fifth member of the group remains in prison. Milad Goodarzi, Yaghoob Nateghi, Shahab Shahi and...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 27 Sep 2019 | News
Yousef Nadarkhani with his two sons, Danial (right) and Youeil, before his incarceration. Christian prisoner Yousef Nadarkhani has gone on hunger strike to protest against his son being barred from school because he refused to take Islamic classes. Youeil, 15, was due...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Sep 2019 | News
Asghar Salehi (left) and Mohammed Reza Rezaei. Three converts to Christianity have been sentenced to six months in prison for “propaganda against the system through promoting Zionist Christianity”, reports Middle East Concern. Asghar Salehi, 43, Mohammad Reza Rezaei,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 Sep 2019 | News
Embed from Getty Images Churches and synagogues in Tehran are no longer tax exempt, according to a report from Iranian Christian news agency Mohabat News. The Assyrian representative to the Iranian parliament, Yonathan Betkolia, criticised the move, saying churches...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 31 Aug 2019 | News
Fatemeh Bakhtari presented herself at Tehran’s Evin Prison today to begin her one-year jail sentence. Fatemeh, who is 35 years old and known as Aylar, was informed in May that her appeal against her sentence, for “propaganda against the regime”, had failed. Last...
