by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Apr 2023 | News
An Iranian Christian couple serving a combined 10 years in prison for belonging to a house-church have had their third application for a retrial accepted. Sara Ahmadi, who will turn 45 on Friday, and Homayoun Zhaveh, who is 64 and has advanced Parkinson’s disease,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Apr 2023 | Notes from Prison
This is the tenth in 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...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Apr 2023 | Notes from Prison
This is the ninth in 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 explained his...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 30 Mar 2023 | News
Two UN special rapporteurs and an Assyrian Christian couple forced to flee Iran after being sentenced to a combined 15 years in prison joined representatives from Article18 and Open Doors International at the UN Human Rights Council launch of our joint annual report...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Mar 2023 | News
Left to right: Mojtaba Hosseini, Nazila Ghanea, Fiona Bruce, Sara Fooladi, Mansour Borji. The UN’s Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Nazila Ghanea, joined Article18’s director, Mansour Borji, and two Iranian Christian survivors of persecution,...