by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Dec 2018 | News
Four Christian converts, including two sisters, have been arrested and detained in the western city of Ahvaz. Shima Zanganeh, 27, and her sister Shoukoufeh, 30, Farzad Behzadi, 30, and Abdollah Yousefi, 34, were arrested in a series of raids by plainclothes...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Dec 2018 | News
Sixty-four-year-old Jamshid Derakhshan has been released on bail after two weeks in solitary confinement in Karaj’s Rajaei-Shahr Prison. Jamshid was interrogated multiple times during his incarceration and told he had been arrested for “spreading evangelical and...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 14 Dec 2018 | News
A 64-year-old convert to Christianity who failed to come home from a visit to a “house church” in Hashtgerd on 30 November has spent the last two weeks in Karaj’s Rajaei-Shahr Prison. Jamshid Derakhshan, who has been a Christian for 30 years, called home...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 Dec 2018 | News
At least 114 Christians have been arrested in the past week following a series of raids in nine different cities across Iran. Most of those arrested were released after a few hours, but only after they had written down details of their Christian activities and been...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Nov 2018 | News
Farhad Sabokrooh with his wife Shahnaz, in an undated photo. An Iranian pastor who fled the country with his wife four years ago after they were both threatened with execution for apostasy has shared his story at the US State Department. Farhad Sabokrooh, who was a...
