by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Mar 2022 | Analysis
A version of this article, written by Article18’s News Director Steve Dew-Jones, was first published on premierchristianity.com. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is finally on her way back to the UK. (Photo: Twitter @TulipSiddiq) After nearly six years’ unjust...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 15 Mar 2022 | Analysis
This article was written by the former pastor of an official church in Iran, who spent weeks in Tehran’s Evin Prison following his arrest by agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence for his church activities, and endured severe pressure from his interrogators...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Mar 2022 | News
Kazem Gharibabadi, secretary of Iran’s “High Council for Human Rights”. Iran has dismissed the latest report by the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in Iran as “biased”, “politically motivated” and based only on “a series of unsubstantiated...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Mar 2022 | Features
Ehsan Khoshgoo was a university student when he was arrested at a Tehran house-church gathering in November 2015. When he was released on bail six weeks later, he was told he could no longer study at the university and that if he went back there, he would be arrested...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Mar 2022 | Witness Statements
For a summary of Ehsan’s story, you can read our feature article here. Background 1. My name is Ehsan Khoshgoo. I was born in 1991 in Kermanshah [western Iran] and grew up in Tehran and Karaj. I studied physical education at Rajai University [in Karaj] and...
