by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Jun 2019 | News
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the forced disappearance of Mehdi Dibaj, a Christian convert who had been released from nine years in prison just five months earlier. Mehdi’s body was found days later in a park in a suburb of Tehran, with multiple stab wounds to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 17 Jun 2019 | News
Aliakbar Gorji Azandaryani (http://www.lvp.ir/) A senior legal adviser to the Iranian president has publicly questioned the legality of the recent closure of a church and banning of religious-minority teachers from nursery schools. Aliakbar Gorji...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 6 Jun 2019 | News
Iran’s continued violations of religious freedom are highlighted in the UK Foreign Office’s latest global Human Rights and Democracy report, published yesterday. The comprehensive annual report lists Iran among 29 “human rights priority countries”,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Jun 2019 | News
(IRNA) The Iranian government has banned members of religious minorities from teaching in nursery schools, except in special schools where all children already belong to that minority. The directive, passed by Iran’s Social Welfare Organisation on 27 May, is the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 May 2019 | News
UN General Assembly (Patrick Gruban / Flickr / CC) The UN General Assembly yesterday voted to adopt 22 August as the annual UN International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief. The proposal, tabled by Poland, was adopted...
