by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Mar 2019 | News
Hundreds of Iranians have travelled to the UK to seek asylum, many of them claiming to be Christian converts. (Flickr / CC / malachybrowne) The UK’s immigration service has come under fire for using verses from the Bible to contradict the claims of an Iranian asylum...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Mar 2019 | News
Javaid Rehman was appointed special rapporteur in July 2018 (Photo: Twitter@JavaidRehman) The UN has today renewed the mandate of its special rapporteur on human rights in Iran for another year following a joint letter by 42 rights groups,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Mar 2019 | News
Seven of the nine “Church of Iran” members arrested this year in Rasht have been released on bail, but two remain detained. L to R: Abdolreza (Matthias) Ali-Haghnejad, Khalil Dehghanpour, and Hossein Kadivar (Middle East Concern) Babak Hosseinzadeh, Mehdi Khatibi,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 14 Mar 2019 | News
A coalition of 42 rights groups, including Article18, have called for the renewal of the mandate of the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in Iran. In a joint letter to members of the UN’s human rights council, the groups highlight the “persistence of serious,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Mar 2019 | News
Around 450 Iranian Christians attended the service on Saturday (Twitter@WakeCathedral) A Farsi-language service has been held at an Anglican church in the UK for the first time, in recognition of the growing number of Iranian-born Christians attending churches across...
