by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Jan 2018 | News
Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh was today transferred to Evin Prison to begin his 10-year jail sentence for “acting against national security through the establishment of ‘house churches’”. The Christian convert has been taken to Section 8, Hall 10 of the notorious prison in...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Oct 2017 | News
A second Christian convert has been arrested by intelligence agents in the western city of Dezful, as the crackdown on Christians there gathers pace. Abdul Ali Pourmand, who is known as Elias, was summoned to the office of the Ministry of Intelligence on 17 October...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Sep 2017 | News
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have published photographs of piles of confiscated Christian items, including Bibles, New Testaments, teaching books and worship music. Article18’s Advocacy Director, Mansour Borji, told World Watch Monitor the photographs were a “publicity...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Jul 2017 | News
Christian convert Amin Afshar-Naderi was today released on bail from Tehran’s Evin Prison until the conclusion of his appeal. Amin, who was recently sentenced to 15 years in prison, had been in detention since his arrest 11 months ago. He was finally released after...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 13 Jul 2017 | News
Left to right: Saheb Fadaie, Yousef Nadarkhani, Yasser Mossayebzadeh, and Youhan Omidi. Four converts have been sentenced to 10 years each in prison for “acting against national security by propagating house-churches and promoting ‘Zionist’ Christianity”. The ruling...
