by Steve Dew-Jones | 9 May 2018 | News
Shamiram Issavi’s first appeal hearing against her five-year jail sentence took place today in Tehran. During the hearing, the prosecutor’s representative reportedly accused the entire family of this Assyrian-speaking Christian of activities against the regime...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Apr 2018 | News
Left to right: Victor Bet-Tamraz, Amin Afshar-Naderi, Kavian Fallah-Mohammadi, and Hadi Asgari. Reverend Victor Bet-Tamraz and converts Hadi Asgari, Kavian Fallah-Mohammadi and Amin Afshar-Naderi, sentenced to a combined 45 years in prison, had their first appeal...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Apr 2018 | News
According to Article18’s sources, Christian convert Aziz Majidzadeh is still being detained, 40 days after his arrest near the city of Karaj. Reports indicate that he was arrested at a friend’s workshop, where a number of Christians had gathered, on the night of 2...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Apr 2018 | News
Christian convert Hadi Asgari was released from Tehran’s Evin Prison on bail today, 19 months after his arrest. His bail had been set at the lofty sum of 170 million tomans (around $50,000) and, when eventually friends helped him to raise the money, it was further...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Mar 2018 | News
Nineteen months since the arrest of Hadi Asgari, judicial authorities are still refusing to allow him to go out on bail until his appeal hearing. One of Hadi’s relatives, whose identity is being withheld for security reasons, told Article18: “Hadi had not been...
