by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Jul 2019 | News
Mohammad Moghiseh has earned the nickname the ‘Judge of Death’ for his harsh treatment of prisoners of conscience. (Photo: Fars/Ali Khara) Five of the nine converts arrested earlier this year in Rasht had their bail increased tenfold at a court hearing in Tehran on...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Jul 2019 | News
(Bild) An Iranian convert to Christianity refused asylum in Germany and deported back to Iran was arrested “immediately” upon her arrival in Tehran, according to German newspaper Bild. Fatemeh Azad, 58, was then reportedly released on bail and is now awaiting...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 Jul 2019 | News
Two months after two converts were told they had lost their appeals against jail sentences for “spreading propaganda against the regime”, it has emerged that one of them has also been banned from all social activities for two years after her release. Fatemeh Bakhtari,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Jul 2019 | News
Iranian-Armenian Christian Sevada Aghasar has been granted “conditional release” from prison after serving half of his five-year sentence for “acting against national security through house-church activities”. Sevada was released from Tehran’s Evin Prison...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Jul 2019 | Reports
Iran’s failure to uphold freedom of religion or belief is a central concern of the latest report by the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran. Javaid Rehman notes that, as a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Iran is obliged...
