by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Aug 2019 | News
Mostafa Rahimi (Hengaw Organization for Human Rights) An Iranian bookseller has been sentenced to three months and one day in prison for selling copies of the Bible, according to a Kurdish rights group. Mostafa Rahimi was reportedly first arrested on 11 June in Bukan,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Jul 2019 | News
(Middle East Concern) A 62-year-old woman convert to Christianity has been sentenced to one year in prison for “propaganda against the system”, reports Middle East Concern. Rokhsareh (Mahrokh) Ghanbari was notified of her sentence today, two days after her appearance...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Jul 2019 | News
(Bild) An Iranian convert to Christianity refused asylum in Germany and deported back to Iran was arrested “immediately” upon her arrival in Tehran, according to German newspaper Bild. Fatemeh Azad, 58, was then reportedly released on bail and is now awaiting...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 Jul 2019 | News
Two months after two converts were told they had lost their appeals against jail sentences for “spreading propaganda against the regime”, it has emerged that one of them has also been banned from all social activities for two years after her release. Fatemeh Bakhtari,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Jul 2019 | News
Iranian-Armenian Christian Sevada Aghasar has been granted “conditional release” from prison after serving half of his five-year sentence for “acting against national security through house-church activities”. Sevada was released from Tehran’s Evin Prison...
