by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Dec 2020 | News
Clockwise from top-left: Afshin Sajedi (IOPHR), Sharon Nazarian (ADL), Mansour Borji (Article18), Alireza Nader (FDD), Ebrahim Ahrari Khalaf (Kalemeh TV), and Farhad Sabetan (BIC). Iran’s religious minorities are today facing the greatest threat to their existence...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Dec 2020 | Features
Today is the 30th anniversary of the hanging of Iranian Christian convert Rev Hossein Soodmand for “apostasy”. Hossein had been arrested a few weeks beforehand, and was executed following a ruling by an Islamic clerical court, without his family’s knowledge. His wife,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Nov 2020 | News
Aziz (Andreas) Majidzadeh is 56 years old and lives in Tehran with his wife and two children. Two Iranian Christian converts have overturned on appeal a combined 10-year prison sentence for their leadership of a house-church. Aziz Majidzadeh, known as Andreas, and...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Nov 2020 | Features
This Sunday will be the 15th anniversary of the brutal murder of Iranian Christian convert Ghorban Tourani, whose still-bleeding body was dumped onto his doorstep on 22 November 2005. Ghorban’s murder – he was stabbed in the stomach, throat and back –...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Nov 2020 | News
The UN General Assembly in New York (Photo: Patrick Gruban / Flickr / CC) The UN’s General Assembly has passed a resolution expressing “serious concerns” about the situation of human rights in Iran, including “severe limitations” and “increasing restrictions” on...
