by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 Aug 2020 | News
Ramin Hassanpour and his wife Kathrin Sajadpour, and Moslem Rahimi. Four Iranian converts have received prison sentences of between two and five years for “acting against national security” by belonging to a house-church and “spreading Zionist Christianity”. Ramin...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 Jul 2020 | News
The family of an Iranian-Armenian house-church leader who remains in detention more than three weeks after his arrest have been told they must deposit 3 billion tomans (around $150,000) for his bail. This is twice the previous highest amount demanded to secure the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Jul 2020 | Case Studies
Case referenced by Article 18, Middle East Concern, The Christian Post, World Watch Monitor, Anglican Ink, Open Doors, International Christian Concern, CBN, Jerusalem Post Summary Esmaeil Maghrebinezhad initially faced four charges after his arrest on 25 January 2019:...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Jul 2020 | News
Iranian Christian convert Esmaeil Maghrebinezhad has lost his appeal against the two remaining prison sentences issued to him earlier this year. Esmaeil, who is 65 years old and an official member of the Anglican Church, initially received three sentences amounting to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 15 Jul 2020 | News
At least 10 of the more than a dozen Christian converts arrested two weeks ago in raids on their homes and house-churches have been charged with “acting against national security by promoting Zionist Christianity”. Article18 reported earlier this month that at least...
