by designer | 26 Sep 2025 | Refugees
Kavian was sentenced to 10 years in prison following his arrest at a Christmas gathering in 2014. The Christian convert was held in solitary confinement for 23 days, and even his glasses were taken away from him. Kavian says the agents told him that if he...
by designer | 26 Sep 2025 | Refugees
Amid and Sanaz’s son Danial was just four years old when Ministry of Intelligence agents came to arrest his parents. Amid and Sanaz had converted to Christianity a few years earlier, and after the Persian-speaking church they had been attending was told it could...
by designer | 26 Sep 2025 | Refugees
Parsa’s father beat him and kicked him out of the house when he learned that he had converted to Christianity. He was also fired from his job. In 2015, Parsa and two of his Christian friends were finalising their plans for a new business venture together, when their...
by designer | 26 Sep 2025 | Refugees
Ehsan was a university student when he was arrested at a Tehran house-church gathering in November 2015. When he was released on bail six weeks later, he was told he could no longer study at the university and that if he went back there, he would be arrested and sent...
by designer | 26 Sep 2025 | Refugees
In September 2010, Mojtaba and two other Christians were arrested while meeting a friend in the city of Arak to teach him about Christianity. Mojtaba spent the next 170 days in detention, including a week in solitary confinement, during which time he was interrogated...
