by Steve Dew-Jones | 27 Aug 2021 | News
Christian convert Hamed Ashouri has been released on leave from prison. Article18 understands that the 31-year-old, who is serving a 10-month sentence for “propaganda against the Islamic Republic”, may be permitted to spend the rest of his sentence at home, with an...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Aug 2021 | News
Left to right: Milad Goodarzi, Amin Khaki, and Alireza Nourmohammadi. Three Christian converts were informed today that their appeals against five-year prison sentences have been rejected, but their sentences reduced to three years. Amin Khaki, Milad Goodarzi and...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Aug 2021 | News
Left to right: Mohammad Ali (Davoud) Torabi, Mohammad Kayidgap, Esmaeil Narimanpour, and Alireza Varak-Shah. Intelligence agents in the southwestern city of Dezful are reportedly refusing to hand back the personal belongings of four Christian converts recently charged...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 13 Aug 2021 | Features
When Arina’s brother came to visit her in prison, he told her that if she refused to give up her Christian faith, he would no longer consider her his sister. Like her interrogators before him, Arina’s brother told her she had been “deceived” into converting to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 13 Aug 2021 | Witness Statements
This is the first in our new series of Witness Statements. For a summary of Arina’s story, you can read our feature article here. Introduction 1. My name is Fatemeh (Arina) Zarei. I was born in 1975, in Isfahan, to a Muslim family with strong religious beliefs....
