by Steve Dew-Jones | 2 May 2023 | Reports
The “sharply deteriorated religious-freedom conditions” in Iran are the focus of the cover and introduction to the latest annual report by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. The cover of the report, which was published yesterday, features a...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Apr 2023 | News
A 50-year-old Christian convert whose son has been battling leukaemia for five years was released from prison on Monday, two days before his 25th birthday. Malihe Nazari, who was serving a six-year prison sentence in Tehran’s Evin Prison for “acting against national...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Apr 2023 | Notes from Prison
This is the twelfth and last of a series of articles by Mojtaba Hosseini, an Iranian convert to Christianity who spent more than three years in prison in the southern city of Shiraz because of his membership of a house-church. Mojtaba’s first note from prison...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 15 Apr 2023 | Notes from Prison
This is the penultimate article in a series by Mojtaba Hosseini, an Iranian convert to Christianity who spent more than three years in prison in the southern city of Shiraz because of his membership of a house-church. Mojtaba’s first note from prison explained his...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 12 Apr 2023 | News
Christian prisoner of conscience Sara Ahmadi has joined 19 other women political prisoners in Tehran’s Evin Prison in co-signing an open letter calling on the Islamic Republic to take action in response to climate change. Sara, who is serving an eight-year prison...