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...
by designer | 12 Feb 2018 | News
A Christian convert arrested ahead of Christmas in Tabriz, northwest Iran, is still in the city’s central prison, according to Article18’s sources. Ali Amini (nicknamed Philip) was arrested by intelligence agents on 10 December, when they stormed his workplace...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 Feb 2018 | News
Left to right: Victor Bet-Tamraz, Amin Afshar-Naderi, Kavian Fallah-Mohammadi, and Hadi Asgari. Yesterday’s appeal hearing for Iranian-Assyrian pastor Victor Bet-Tamraz and Christian converts Amin Afshar-Naderi, Hadi Asgari and Kavian Fallah-Mohammadi was postponed...
