by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Apr 2020 | Reports
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom has once again listed Iran among the world’s worst violators of religious freedom. In its latest annual report, USCIRF recommends that the US State Department re-designates Iran as one of 14 “Countries of...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Apr 2020 | Case Studies
(Last updated: April 2025) Clockwise from top-left: Shahrooz Eslamdoust, Mehdi Khatibi, Babak Hosseinzadeh, Hossein Kadivar, Mohammad Vafadar, Abdolreza Ali Haghnejad, Behnam Akhlaghi, Khalil Dehghanpour, Kamal Naamanian Case referenced by Article 18, Middle East...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Apr 2020 | Features
(Photo: Wikipedia) While today relations between Iran and America are severely strained, there remains, even today, an American revered by many in Iran for giving his life in the fight for democracy. Howard Baskerville died on 19 April 1909, days after his 24th...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Apr 2020 | News
Twenty-one-year-old Iranian Christian convert Fatemeh (Mary) Mohammadi has been sentenced to three months plus one day in prison, and ten lashes. The sentence relates to Mary’s alleged participation in anti-government demonstrations following the downing of a...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Apr 2020 | News
The Council of United Iranian Churches (Hamgaam) has called on Iran to immediately release all prisoners of conscience to “prevent a serious humanitarian disaster”. In a statement released yesterday, the council welcomed the reported release of around 100,000...
