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...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 2 Sep 2014 | News
Zeinab Akbari and Hamidreza Borhani (Photo: HRANA) At least five Christian converts have been arrested in Isfahan over the past two days. The latest of these arrests took place this morning, when Hamidreza Borhani and his wife Zeinab Akbari were arrested during a raid...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Sep 2013 | News
Christian converts Maryam Jalili and Mitra Rahmati are among more than a dozen political prisoners to have been released on the eve of President Hassan Rouhani’s trip to the UN in New York. The two Christians had only around one and a half months left of their...
