by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Feb 2021 | News
A screenshot of one of the six videos of Ebrahim Firouzi released over the past week on the Facebook page of Switzerland-based activist Milad Baharian. An Iranian Christian convert who has spent years in prison and is now in internal exile has been summoned to respond...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Feb 2021 | News
Photo: Mission Network News Eleven Christian couples from a city just outside Tehran have been ordered by agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence to sign commitments to refrain from meeting together – either in person or online. After refusing, the Christians...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 2 Feb 2021 | News
In a year dominated by Covid-19, Iran still found time to persecute Christians in 2020, Article18’s annual report reveals. The report, published today in collaboration with Middle East Concern, Open Doors, and CSW, shows that 15 Christians were being held in Tehran’s...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 2 Feb 2021 | Reports
In a year dominated by Covid-19, Iran still found time to persecute Christians in 2020, Article18’s annual report reveals. The report, published today in collaboration with Middle East Concern, Open Doors, and CSW, shows that 15 Christians were being held in Tehran’s...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Feb 2021 | News
Habib Heydari (left), and brothers Sam (centre) and Sasan Khosravi. An appeals court in the southwestern Iranian city of Bushehr has upheld the one-year prison sentences given to three Christian converts for “propagating against the Islamic Republic through promoting...