by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Aug 2022 | Analysis
Embed from Getty Images An Iranian Christian convert who has been seeking asylum in Germany for four years has until today to accept his deportation or hand over his work license, after his final appeal – to the European Court of Human Rights – was...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Jul 2022 | Features
“Sometimes I feel like I’ve waste my whole life.” These are the words of Iman Ghaznavian Haghighi, an Iranian Christian who has been living as a refugee in Turkey for nearly a decade now. After arriving in 2013 aged 27, Iman now finds himself in his late 30s, still...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Feb 2022 | News
An Anglican minister who fled Iran six years ago because of constant harassment by intelligence agents and multiple arrests has now been told he is to be deported back to Iran from his city of temporary residence in Turkey. Pastor Hekmat Salimi, who is 72 years old...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Nov 2021 | Reports
A new report by a Christian charity in Germany is highly critical of its immigration service for failing to recognise the testimony of pastors when considering the claims of asylum-seekers professing to be Christian converts, the majority of whom are Iranian....
by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Oct 2021 | News
A new report by a Christian charity in Germany is highly critical of its immigration service for failing to recognise the testimony of pastors when considering the claims of asylum-seekers professing to be Christian converts, the majority of whom are Iranian. The...
