by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Jan 2019 | News
Two converts were asked to renounce their faith during their appeal hearing on 15 January in Tehran. Saheb Fadaie and Fatemeh Bakhtari When Saheb Fadaie and Fatemeh Bakhtari refused, the presiding judges, Hassan Babaee and Ahmad Zargar, told them to expect their...
by designer | 17 Jan 2019 | News
An “unprecedented” wave of raids on private house gatherings of Christians at the end of 2018, leading to more than 100 arrests, was the culmination of a year in which religious freedom continued to be violated in Iran, reveals Article18’s inaugural annual report. One...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Dec 2018 | News
Four Christian converts, including two sisters, have been arrested and detained in the western city of Ahvaz. Shima Zanganeh, 27, and her sister Shoukoufeh, 30, Farzad Behzadi, 30, and Abdollah Yousefi, 34, were arrested in a series of raids by plainclothes...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Dec 2018 | News
Sixty-four-year-old Jamshid Derakhshan has been released on bail after two weeks in solitary confinement in Karaj’s Rajaei-Shahr Prison. Jamshid was interrogated multiple times during his incarceration and told he had been arrested for “spreading evangelical and...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 14 Dec 2018 | News
A 64-year-old convert to Christianity who failed to come home from a visit to a “house church” in Hashtgerd on 30 November has spent the last two weeks in Karaj’s Rajaei-Shahr Prison. Jamshid Derakhshan, who has been a Christian for 30 years, called home...
