by Steve Dew-Jones | 12 Jul 2019 | News
A young female Christian convert and activist who spent six months in prison for her membership of a Tehran house-church was arrested on Tuesday for “improper” hijab, HRANA reports. Fatemeh Mohammadi, 19, who completed her jail sentence in the spring of last...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Jul 2019 | News
The cross has been replaced on top of the forcibly closed Assyrian church in Tabriz following a global outcry. In the 9 July photo Article18 has been able to obtain, some men can be seen placing the cross back on the tower. It was torn down on 9 May as agents from the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Jul 2019 | News
Left to right: Yaghoob Nateghi, Milad Goodarzi, Amin Khaki, Alireza Nourmohammadi and Shahab Shahi. Five Iranian converts submitted themselves to the central detention centre in Karaj on Saturday to begin their jail sentences for “propaganda against the state”. Manoto...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Jul 2019 | News
Left to right: Pooriya Peyma, Fatemeh Talebi, Maryam Falahi, Sam Khosravi, Khatoon Fatolahzadeh, Sasan Khosravi, Marjan Falahi, and Habib Heydari Eight converts to Christianity, including five members of one family, were arrested in the southwestern city of Bushehr on...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 May 2019 | News
Intelligence agents stormed the 100-year-old church, which is a National Heritage site, and tore down the cross from the tower. The Assyrian Christian community in the northwestern city of Tabriz has been left it a state of shock, after the Presbyterian church was...
