by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Mar 2019 | News
Javaid Rehman (Twitter) The UN’s Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran has bemoaned the “heavy sentences” given to Iranian Christians and called for the “release of all those imprisoned for having exercised their right to freedom of religion or belief”. In his...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Feb 2019 | News
Three more members of the “Church of Iran” network in Rasht have been arrested, taking the total to nine in the past month. Babak Hosseinzadeh and Mehdi Khatibi were arrested at two separate “house churches” on Saturday evening, reports Middle East Concern. ...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Feb 2019 | News
Amnesty appealed for release of (clockwise from top left): Hadi Asgari, Shamiram Issavi, Amin Afshar-Naderi, Victor Bet-Tamraz. Iran’s “systematic violation” of freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) was just one of the ways the 40-year-old regime “suppressed” human...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Feb 2019 | News
A video has been posted online showing a desecrated Christian cemetery in Kerman. “I’m in Kerman and this used to be a Christian cemetery… But all the graves have been dug up and the bodies taken away,” says the journalist reporting for Manoto TV, a...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Feb 2019 | News
Twenty-six-year-old convert to Christianity Sina Moloudian has been charged with “propaganda against the state through the promotion of the Christian faith and the distribution of Bibles”. Sina was released from Isfahan’s Dastgerd Prison on 4 February after posting...
