by Steve Dew-Jones | 12 Jan 2024 | News
A lawyer who has represented several Iranian Christians in court has been summoned to the prosecutor’s office in the city where he used to live and work. Iman Soleimani, whose previous clients include former prisoners of conscience Joseph Shahbazian and Nasser Navard...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Jan 2024 | News
Iranian Christians in Turkey are no longer eligible for resettlement to the US as part of the refugee sponsorship programme launched last year, despite Iran being re-designated last week as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) by the US Secretary of State for “having...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 Jan 2024 | News
A 60-year-old Iranian Christian convert has been summoned to begin her six-year prison sentence for “acting against national security by promoting ‘Zionist’ Christianity” through leadership of a house-church. Mina Khajavi, who was arrested back in 2020, was sentenced...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 Jan 2024 | News
An Armenian Christian who remains in Evin Prison nearly five months after his arrest faces a first court hearing this Sunday on charges of “propaganda against the state through the promotion of Christianity”. Hakop Gochumyan, who is 35 years old, will be tried at the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Jan 2024 | News
A Christian convert previously forced to attend “re-education” sessions with an Islamic cleric remains detained following his arrest during a Christmas Eve raid on his home in Dezful, western Iran. Esmaeil Narimanpour’s home was searched and his Christian books...
