by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 Aug 2023 | Analysis
The director of an organisation that supports refugees in the UK, including Iranian Christians, has spoken to Article18 about the challenges they continue to face, despite Iran recently being added to the list of countries of origin whose asylum claims are...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Jun 2023 | News
Over the past three years, Article18 has reported on numerous occasions about a group of Iranian Christians in Sweden who have taken to the streets of Stockholm to protest about rights abuses in their home country. The “I Am a Christian Too” protesters have campaigned...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 27 Jan 2023 | News
These are just some of the faces of the Iranian Christians who have been detained in Turkey in recent weeks. Article18 has received firsthand testimonies from five Iranian Christian refugee families – 17 individuals in total – who have been arrested in...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Nov 2022 | Analysis
Field House in London, UK, where many asylum cases are decided. (Photo: righttoremain.org.uk) The question of how much weight should be given to the testimony of church members and leaders in assessing the credibility of asylum-seekers’ claims to have converted to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 31 Oct 2022 | News
An Iranian Anglican minister and his family, who had been threatened with deportation from Turkey, have now been safely resettled in the United States. Pastor Hekmat Salimi, his wife Mahindokht and their daughter Sama arrived in Atlanta late on Saturday night, after...
