by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Feb 2019 | News
Twenty-six-year-old convert to Christianity Sina Moloudian has been charged with “propaganda against the state through the promotion of the Christian faith and the distribution of Bibles”. Sina was released from Isfahan’s Dastgerd Prison on 4 February after posting...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Feb 2019 | News
L to R: Kamal Naamanian, Mohammad Vafadar and Shahrooz Eslamdoust (Middle East Concern) Three more members of the imprisoned pastor Yousef Nadarkhani’s “Church of Iran” group in Rasht have been arrested and taken to an unknown location. Kamal Naamanian, Mohammad...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Feb 2019 | News
Shamiram Issavi’s appeal against her five-year jail sentence for “acting against national security” was postponed after a hearing today at Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran. The new presiding judge, Ahmad Zargar, appeared visibly confused at the details...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 17 Feb 2019 | News
A Tehrani woman who converted to Christianity has been told she could face a ten-year prison sentence for “disturbing public order, propagating Christianity and connecting with foreign entities”. Simin Soheili, 40, was arrested on 30 January and transferred to Evin...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 12 Feb 2019 | News
Three converts from Islam standing in for the imprisoned pastor Yousef Nadarkhani in leading services in their church in Rasht have been detained by officers from the Ministry of Intelligence. Abdolreza (Matthias) Ali-Haghnejad was arrested on Sunday, 10 February,...
