by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Nov 2021 | News
Clockwise from top-left: Shahrooz Eslamdoust, Mehdi Khatibi, Babak Hosseinzadeh, Hossein Kadivar, Mohammad Vafadar, Abdolreza (Matthias) Ali-Haghnejad, Behnam Akhlaghi, Khalil Dehghanpour, Kamal Naamanian. Iran’s Supreme Court has ruled that nine...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Nov 2021 | Analysis
This article, written by Iranian-Armenian Christian Fred Petrossian, was first published by MvoicesIran and is reproduced here with kind permission. Illustration: Assad Binakhahi for MvoicesIran. It is enough just to take a look at the newborn babies in an Iranian...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Nov 2021 | News
The UN’s General Assembly yesterday passed a resolution highlighting “widespread patterns of serious human rights violations” in Iran, including the continued repression of religious minorities. The resolution, which was presented by Canada on behalf of 47...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Nov 2021 | Reports
A new report by a Christian charity in Germany is highly critical of its immigration service for failing to recognise the testimony of pastors when considering the claims of asylum-seekers professing to be Christian converts, the majority of whom are Iranian....
by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Nov 2021 | News
Article18 has joined 30 other organisations in calling on UN member states to support an upcoming resolution highlighting “widespread patterns of serious human rights violations” in Iran. The resolution, which will be voted on next week, is “an important opportunity...