by Steve Dew-Jones | 14 Jul 2023 | Features
Amid and Sanaz’s son Danial was just four years old when Ministry of Intelligence agents came to arrest his parents. The agents – three male, two female – first searched the family’s home and confiscated anything that could conceivably be considered...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 14 Jul 2023 | Witness Statements
For a summary of Amid and Sanaz’s story, you can read our feature article here. Background Amid 1. My full name is Aliasghar Fathollahi, but I am known as Amid Fathi. I was born in 1974 in Hamedan [western Iran] into a family that isn’t very religious but adheres to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Jul 2023 | News
An Iranian pastor who has spent most of the past four years behind bars has now been transferred to another prison on the other side of the country, 1,000 miles from his home and family. Abdolreza Ali-Haghnejad, who is known as Matthias, was flown yesterday morning...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 30 Jun 2023 | News
Three Iranian women converts to Christianity arrested last month and held incommunicado in Tehran’s Evin Prison for 40 days face a court hearing on Sunday on unknown charges, according to a US-based Christian organisation. Shilan Oraminejad, Razieh (Maral) Kohzady,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 27 Jun 2023 | News
A house-church leader who has already spent nearly five years in prison, and was once flogged for drinking Communion wine, has been flogged a second time and now faces two years in exile. Zaman Fadaie, who is known as Saheb, was flogged again on Sunday, 25 June,...
