by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Mar 2023 | News
Yousef Nadarkhani, Bible in hand, stands in front of the only church in Rasht that offered services in the national language of Persian, before its forcible closure. Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, who was released on Sunday after nearly five years’ arbitrary detention in...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Mar 2023 | News
An Iranian pastor once sentenced to death for his “apostasy” has been “pardoned” and released after nearly five years in Tehran’s Evin Prison, but told he still faces flogging and two years’ exile 2,000km from his home. Yousef Nadarkhani, whose death sentence was...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Feb 2023 | News
A third Christian convert was among the prisoners pardoned and released earlier this month, Article18 can now confirm. Mehdi Rokhparvar, who was serving a five-year sentence for “acting against national security” by “forming an illegal evangelical Christian group”,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Feb 2023 | Notes from Prison
This is the fourth 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 | 22 Feb 2023 | Analysis
This extract of an interview conducted by the director of Human Rights Without Frontiers, Willy Fautré, was first published by the magazine Bitter Winter and is republished here with kind permission. Iranian-Assyrian Christian Dabrina Bet-Tamraz was forced to flee...
