by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Sep 2019 | News
Article18’s Advocacy Director, Mansour Borji Interviews and case studies used in the formation of a UK government report into the persecution of Christians worldwide have now been made publicly available. Article18 was the report’s primary source on Iran, contributing...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 12 Sep 2019 | News
(Photo: Mehr) Iran’s Minister of Education says children who profess an unrecognised religious faith at school are engaging in “propaganda” and should be banned. Mohsen Haji Mirzaei made the remarks yesterday at a cabinet meeting, ahead of the new school term. He...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Sep 2019 | News
Embed from Getty Images Researchers at an international Christian charity have urged immigration officials in countries where Iranian converts make asylum claims to focus their questions on the claimant’s “personal experience of Christianity”, rather than the extent...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 31 Aug 2019 | News
Fatemeh Bakhtari presented herself at Tehran’s Evin Prison today to begin her one-year jail sentence. Fatemeh, who is 35 years old and known as Aylar, was informed in May that her appeal against her sentence, for “propaganda against the regime”, had failed. Last...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Aug 2019 | News
Mostafa Rahimi (Hengaw Organization for Human Rights) An Iranian bookseller has been sentenced to three months and one day in prison for selling copies of the Bible, according to a Kurdish rights group. Mostafa Rahimi was reportedly first arrested on 11 June in Bukan,...
