by Steve Dew-Jones | 12 Jun 2024 | News
A Christian convert arrested last month remains in detention in an unknown location, as his wife and two daughters grow increasingly concerned. Farrokh Kakaei, who will celebrate his 55th birthday later this month, was arrested at his home in Karaj on 26 May by four...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Jun 2024 | News
An Armenian Christian has been condemned to 10 years in prison in Iran despite his lawyer arguing that the case against him was so weak that the judge was forced to use a penal code provision enabling him to use his “intuition”. Hakop Gochumyan, who has been detained...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Jun 2024 | News
A Christian convert who was detained for over four months following his arrest on Christmas Eve has been sentenced to five years in prison for “acting against national security by communicating with Christian ‘Zionist’ organisations”. Esmaeil Narimanpour, who was...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 May 2024 | News
A hospital founded by American missionaries 100 years ago and confiscated following the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979 has been demolished after a long-running dispute. Masih (“Messiah”) Hospital, in the western city of Kermanshah, was one of several...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 May 2024 | News
A pastor serving a six-year sentence in a prison 1,000 miles from his wife and daughter has been told he will no longer be permitted to return home to visit them each month. Abdolreza Ali Haghnejad, who is known as Matthias, has been serving a six-year sentence for...
