by Steve Dew-Jones | 13 Mar 2020 | News
A Christian convert serving two years in internal exile in a remote southeastern Iranian city has had his exile extended for a further 11 months owing to an unauthorised leave of absence. Ebrahim Firouzi, who is 34, began his exile on 12 November 2019, just two weeks...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Mar 2020 | News
The UN’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran has called for the release of all prisoners of conscience, even those on security-related charges, amid fears the coronavirus could spread rapidly within Iran’s overcrowded prisons. Javaid Rehman, speaking...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 9 Mar 2020 | Features
By Mary Mohammadi The following is an English translation of an interview conducted by Christian convert Fatemeh (Mary) Mohammadi with Arian Soodmand, youngest daughter of Pastor Hossein Soodmand, who was executed for apostasy in 1990. When and how did the pressure...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 Mar 2020 | News
Christian convert Esmaeil Maghrebinezhad has been sentenced to an additional two years in prison. The 65-year-old was sentenced in January to three years in prison for “insulting Islamic sacred beliefs”. Now, following a court hearing on 17 February, he has been...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 Mar 2020 | News
Clockwise from top-left: Mohammad Vafadar, Kamal Naamanian, Hossein Kadivar, Khalil Dehghanpour, Behnam Akhlaghi, Mehdi Khatibi, Babak Hosseinzadeh, Shahrooz Eslamdoust and Abdolreza (Matthias) Ali-Haghnejad. (Middle East Concern) Nine converts have lost...
