by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Jan 2024 | News
Four Christian converts, including an Afghan refugee, remain in detention over three weeks after their arrest in Shahriar, west of Tehran. The arrests followed an 11 December raid by 30 intelligence agents on a house-church gathering, where around 25 men, women and...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Dec 2023 | Features
Four Iranian Christians who were arrested at Christmas time or spent the festive season in prison have shared with Article18 how Iranian Christians celebrate Jesus’ birth with a mixture of joy and trepidation. “We used to celebrate most of the New Year and Christmas...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Dec 2023 | News
An Armenian citizen, who was one of over 100 Christians arrested in Iran this summer, remains detained in Evin Prison more than four months later. Hakop Gochumyan, 35, was visiting Iran with his wife Elisa, who is an Iranian-Armenian, and their two children, when they...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 15 Dec 2023 | Analysis
This article, written by Article18’s Fred Petrossian, analyses the ways in which education, art, urbanism and religious discourse have been weaponised by the Iranian state. It was first published on the website Global Voices, and is republished here with kind...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 12 Dec 2023 | News
A former prisoner of conscience and his brother remain in detention in an unknown location after four house-church members were arrested yesterday during coordinated raids by intelligence agents on their homes and shops near Tehran. The name of the detainees cannot be...
