by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 May 2019 | News
Two Iranian converts have been informed that their jail sentences have been upheld, four months after their appeal hearing, reports Middle East Concern. Zaman (Saheb) Fadaie and Fatemeh (Aylar) Bakhtari were sentenced to 18 months and 12 months in prison,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Apr 2019 | News
Left to right: Shapoor Jozi, Parastou Zariftash, and Payam Kharaman Sixteen converts to Christianity in the southwestern city of Bushehr are facing time in prison after their convictions were upheld at an appeal hearing last month. Twelve have been sentenced to a year...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Mar 2019 | News
Seven of the nine “Church of Iran” members arrested this year in Rasht have been released on bail, but two remain detained. L to R: Abdolreza (Matthias) Ali-Haghnejad, Khalil Dehghanpour, and Hossein Kadivar (Middle East Concern) Babak Hosseinzadeh, Mehdi Khatibi,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Feb 2019 | News
Three more members of the “Church of Iran” network in Rasht have been arrested, taking the total to nine in the past month. Babak Hosseinzadeh and Mehdi Khatibi were arrested at two separate “house churches” on Saturday evening, reports Middle East Concern. ...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Feb 2019 | News
A video has been posted online showing a desecrated Christian cemetery in Kerman. “I’m in Kerman and this used to be a Christian cemetery… But all the graves have been dug up and the bodies taken away,” says the journalist reporting for Manoto TV, a...
