by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Dec 2020 | News
There are renewed fears over a parliamentary bill that threatens to facilitate the further repression of Iran’s religious minorities. The bill was initially passed by the parliament in May but sent back for amendments by the Guardian Council a month later. And...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Dec 2020 | Features
Peyman and Leila’s one-year-old daughter, Armita, was present when officers from Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence raided their house-church leadership meeting in Isfahan in February 2013. In the end, it provided the couple with an excuse to leave, as Armita had a...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Dec 2020 | Analysis
Embed from Getty Images By Mansour Borji Every year at Christmas, Iranian regime figures line up to offer their best wishes to their Christian compatriots. Such well-wishing is a well-established practice of the regime, dating back to founding father Ayatollah...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Dec 2020 | News
Embed from Getty Images The US State Department has re-designated Iran as a “Country of Particular Concern” for “engaging in or tolerating systematic, ongoing, egregious violations of religious freedom”. Iran is one of only 10 such countries, alongside Myanmar, China,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 7 Dec 2020 | News
Article18 has joined 36 other rights group in calling on UN member states to ratify the recently adopted resolution on the promotion and protection of human rights in Iran at a plenary session of the General Assembly later this month. The resolution, which was passed...
