by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Apr 2011 | News
Six converts from Islam have been acquitted of “apostasy”, “blasphemy” and “acting against national security” but sentenced to a year each in prison for “propaganda against the regime”. Behrouz Sadegh-Khanjani. It had been feared that Behrouz Sadegh-Khanjani, Parviz...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 Jan 2011 | News
Some of the Christians currently detained in Iran. Scores of Christians in Tehran and other cities have been arrested at their homes in recent days as part of a mass operation by agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence. The governor of Tehran, Morteza Tamadon,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 6 Dec 2010 | News
Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, a convert from a Muslim background, has been sentenced to death for “apostasy”. Just one Christian leader has been executed for apostasy in Iran: Hossein Soodmand, who was hanged in Mashhad in December 1990. Yousef, who has been...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Dec 2010 | News
Twenty years since the hanging of Iranian pastor Hossein Soodmand, a memorial service will be held on Saturday, 4 December, in London. All members of British and Iranian churches have been invited. Hossein remains the only person officially executed on charges of...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 May 2010 | News
A number of reports have reached Article18 in recent days of the release on bail of several Christians, as well as the acquittal of women who spent nine months in prison. The details of each case is outlined below. Hamid Shafiee and Reyhaneh Aghajari This...
