by Steve Dew-Jones | 15 Feb 2017 | News
Amin Afshar-Naderi (left) and Hadi Asgari have been on hunger strike since 5 February. There are concerns over the health of one of two Christian converts currently undertaking a hunger strike in Tehran’s Evin Prison to protest against the lack of progress in their...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Aug 2016 | News
Left to right: Mohammad Dehnavi, Hadi Asgari, Amin Afshar-Naderi, Ramiel Bet-Tamraz, and Amir-Saman Dashti. Five Christians have been arrested during a raid by 15 intelligence agents on a private garden in Firoozkooh, east of Tehran. The raid took place on the morning...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 12 Jul 2016 | News
Christian prisoner of conscience Ebrahim Firouzi has begun a hunger strike after he was beaten by prison guards in Karaj’s Rajaei Shahr Prison for refusing to attend an appeal hearing because the court had not accepted new evidence submitted in his case. After...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 31 May 2016 | News
Christian convert Maryam (Nasim) Naghash Zargaran has been taken back to prison from hospital without receiving any medical treatment, despite falling unconscious during a hunger strike. Nasim was taken to hospital after falling ill on 29 May, the fourth day of her...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 May 2015 | News
Christian prisoner of conscience Farshid Fathi’s appeal against an extra year in prison has been rejected. The Christian convert was sentenced to the extra year in prison, as well as 74 lashes and a 200,000 toman fine (around $70), in December 2014 for alleged...
