by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Jul 2018 | News
Left to right: Saheb Fadaie, Yousef Nadarkhani, Yasser Mossayebzadeh, and Youhan Omidi. On Sunday morning, 22 July, plainclothes officers attacked the Rasht home of “Church of Iran” pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, and, after beating him and his 16-year-old son, took him...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Jul 2018 | News
(Twitter @NiknamSepanta) A Zoroastrian will be allowed to continue as member of Yazd City Council after Iran’s Expediency Discernment Council voted today that religious minorities can be nominated in the Islamic councils of cities and villages.. Sepanta Niknam had...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Jul 2018 | News
Ramiel Bet-Tamraz, son of pastor Victor Bet-Tamraz and Shamiram Issavi, has been sentenced to four months’ imprisonment for engaging in Christian activities. Christian convert Amir-Saman Dashti and another, who was arrested alongside him in August 2016, received the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 27 Jun 2018 | News
(World Evangelical Alliance) Today the daughter of an Iranian pastor sentenced to ten years in prison has spoken out at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. Dabrina Bet-Tamraz, whose father Victor was sentenced in July last year and whose mother,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 May 2018 | News
Christian convert Aziz Majidzadeh was today released on bail from Evin Prison, pending the formation of formal charges against him. Aziz was arrested on 2 March at a gathering of Christians at a friend’s workshop near Karaj. About 20 Christians were detained and...
