by designer | 1 Jun 2020 | Prisoners
Mina Khajavi, a Christian convert in her sixties, is serving her sentence in Evin Prison, Tehran, and began her six-year term on 8 January 2024. She was arrested in 2020 while attending a worship service at the home of a fellow convert in Yaft-Abad, Tehran, along with...
by designer | 17 Jan 2019 | News
An “unprecedented” wave of raids on private house gatherings of Christians at the end of 2018, leading to more than 100 arrests, was the culmination of a year in which religious freedom continued to be violated in Iran, reveals Article18’s inaugural annual report. One...
by designer | 20 Apr 2018 | Reports
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has cited Iran among the main contributing countries towards an “ongoing downward trend” in religious liberty worldwide and asked the State Department to re-designate Iran as a “country of particular concern”, or...
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 designer | 12 Jan 2018 | News
The court hearing on the case of Shamiram Issavi, the wife of the pastor Victor Bet-Tamraz, was held on 6 January at a Revolutionary Court in Tehran under the chairmanship of Judge Mashallah Ahmadzadeh. The Iranian-Assyrian Christian was sentenced to five years in...
