by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Oct 2021 | Witness Statements
For a summary of Emma’s story, you can read our feature article here. Background 1. My name is Azam Safaei, though now I prefer to be called Emma. I was born in 1977, and am originally from Khorasan [northeast Iran]. 2. I started playing music in my first year...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Oct 2021 | News
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. The...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Sep 2021 | News
There are concerns over the wellbeing of a convert, whose whereabouts remain unknown more than three weeks after his arrest during a raid on a house-church service in Rasht, northern Iran. Ayoob Poor-Rezazadeh, 28, was one of three converts arrested on the evening of...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Sep 2021 | Features
“Suffocating.” That’s the word Christian convert Alireza Mohammadpour uses to describe his treatment by agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence, treatment that ultimately led him to flee his homeland. The 31-year-old, who is known as Parham, is now one of hundreds...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Sep 2021 | Witness Statements
For a summary of Parham’s story, you can read our feature article here. Background and conversion 1. My name is Alireza (Parham) Mohammadpour, and I was born in 1990 in Nahavand [Hamadan Province], to a Laki-speaking [Kurdish dialect] family from the city of...
