by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Jul 2018 | News
Ramiel Bet-Tamraz, son of pastor Victor Bet-Tamraz and Shamiram Issavi, has been sentenced to four months’ imprisonment for engaging in Christian activities. Christian convert Amir-Saman Dashti and another, who was arrested alongside him in August 2016, received the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 May 2018 | News
Christian convert Aziz Majidzadeh was today released on bail from Evin Prison, pending the formation of formal charges against him. Aziz was arrested on 2 March at a gathering of Christians at a friend’s workshop near Karaj. About 20 Christians were detained and...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 9 May 2018 | News
Shamiram Issavi’s first appeal hearing against her five-year jail sentence took place today in Tehran. During the hearing, the prosecutor’s representative reportedly accused the entire family of this Assyrian-speaking Christian of activities against the regime...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Apr 2018 | News
Left to right: Victor Bet-Tamraz, Amin Afshar-Naderi, Kavian Fallah-Mohammadi, and Hadi Asgari. Reverend Victor Bet-Tamraz and converts Hadi Asgari, Kavian Fallah-Mohammadi and Amin Afshar-Naderi, sentenced to a combined 45 years in prison, had their first appeal...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Apr 2018 | News
Christian convert Hadi Asgari was released from Tehran’s Evin Prison on bail today, 19 months after his arrest. His bail had been set at the lofty sum of 170 million tomans (around $50,000) and, when eventually friends helped him to raise the money, it was further...
