by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Oct 2020 | News
Forty-seven UN member states signed a joint statement read out at the Human Rights Council in Geneva last week, condemning Iran’s human rights abuses. The statement, read out by the German representative on 25 September, expressed “deep concern” about violations of...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Sep 2020 | News
Iranian Christian convert Ebrahim Firouzi has already spent six years in prison followed by nearly a year in internal exile 1,000 miles from his home. Now, just two days ago, on Sunday 27 September, the 33-year-old was summoned to the local prosecutor’s office...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Sep 2020 | Features
At 6am on 28 September 1996, Christian convert Mohammad Bagher Yusefi (known as “Ravanbakhsh”, or “soul giver”) left his home in Sari, northern Iran, at his wife Akhtar’s request, to buy some bread. He’d agreed to return home soon afterwards to take the children...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Sep 2020 | Features
Iranian-Assyrian pastor Victor Bet-Tamraz has spoken exclusively to Article18 about how his years of service to the Church in Iran ultimately led to a 10-year prison sentence that forced him out of the country. In the 30-minute video interview, Pastor Victor says...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Sep 2020 | News
Lydia was just three months old when she was adopted by Iranian Christian converts Sam Khosravi and wife Maryam Falahi. Now, just one month before her second birthday, a court has ruled she must be taken away from them, as Sam and Maryam – who are currently...
