Tag: Iran

Iranians still don’t know why they were arrested

September 28, 2016 Iran Amin Afshar Naderi, Amir Saman Dashti, Evin Prison, Hadi Asgari, Iran, Mohammad Dehnavi, Ramil Bet-Tamraz, Tehran

Five Iranian Christians in the Alborz Mountains north-east of Tehran still haven’t been told why they are being detained, nor have they been allowed any visitors – not even lawyers. Amin Afshar Naderi, Ramil Bet-Tamraz, Hadi Asgari, Mohammad Dehnavi and Amir Saman Dashti were arrested on 26 Aug. Their families . . . Read More

Iranian Christian back in prison again

September 19, 2016 Iran Apostasy, Converts, Iran, Islamic extremism, Maryam Naghash Zargaran, Prisons, Saeed Abedini

On 17 Sep., Maryam Naghash Zargaran was returned to prison after her medical treatment was again cut short. Her friends and family reported that she was again unable to receive adequate treatment during her time at home. Amnesty International has in its prisons. Amnesty mentioned Zargaran, an Iranian Christian who . . . Read More

More UK Muslim refugees convert to Christianity

July 25, 2016 Asylum seekers, Converts, Europe, Iran, UK

A church in the UK with a growing congregation of Muslim refugees seeking conversion to Christianity is a “microcosm of what is happening across churches in Europe” says . Muslim refugees across western Europe are “converting in ever greater numbers and for a complex array of reasons” – because of . . . Read More

Iranian Christian released, but another beaten

July 19, 2016 Iran Ebrahim Firouzi, Exile, Iran, Shush

An Iranian Christian [UPDATE: named by implication, December 2017 as Amin Khaki] has been released from prison and told he does not need to serve a suspended sentence of a further year in jail, reports MEC. However, three fellow Christians arrested with him in March 2014 at a picnic in Shush, . . . Read More

Third Iranian Christian granted bail

June 13, 2016 Iran Apostasy, Iran, Mohammad Reza Omidi, Rasht, Saheb Fadaie, Yasser Mossayebzadeh, Youcef Nadarkhani

Mohammad Reza Omidi has been granted bail in the northern city of Rasht after paying the equivalent of $33,000, the same amount as fellow Christians Yasser Mossayebzadeh and Saheb Fadaie, who were released a week earlier. The trio were arrested on 13 May alongside Youcef Nadarkhani, an Iranian pastor once . . . Read More

Iran: Nadarkhani released, 3 others detained

May 16, 2016 Iran Iran, Mohammad Reza Omidi, Rasht, Saheb Fadaie, Yasser Mossayebzadeh, Youcef Nadarkhani

Youcef Nadarkhani, an Iranian pastor once , was arrested again on Friday (13 May), but released later that day. His wife Tina was also arrested and released, but three other Christians are still being detained, following raids on a number of Christian homes in the northern city of Rasht. It . . . Read More

Religion-driven hostility to Christians follows them to German refugee centres

May 13, 2016 Afghanistan, Chechnya, Europe, Iran, Migrants, Refugees, Sweden, Syria

Mahan, 2, an Iranian Christian refugee who along with his parents is seeking asylum in Germany, peeks from behind a glass partition in the dining room at the Spreehotel refugee centre in January 2015 in Bautzen, Germany. About 200 refugees, many from Syria and Tunisia, but also from Chechnya, the . . . Read More

Calls for Christian asylum centres in Sweden

April 29, 2016 Assyrians, Asylum seekers, Converts, France, Germany, Iran, Islamic extremism, Middle East, Pakistan, Refugees, Sweden, Women

Increasing reports about Christians harassed by hardline Muslim fellow migrants are prompting calls for non-Muslim asylum centres to be set up in Sweden. According to the Swedish Evangelical Alliance, one Christian refugee in Kalmar in the southeast of the country was threatened with having his throat slit by a man . . . Read More

Iranians await appeal verdict

February 10, 2016 Iran Iran, Proselytism, Shush

Four Iranian Christians are awaiting the verdict of an appeal against their one-year jail sentences for spreading Christianity in Iran. Amin Khaki, Hossein Barounzadeh, Mohammad Bahrami and Rahman Bahmani were sentenced in October 2015. Their appeal was heard on 1 Feb. and the judge is expected to give a ruling . . . Read More

Abedini reflects upon time in Iran prison

January 28, 2016 Iran Iran, Saeed Abedini

American-Iranian pastor Saeed Abedini has spoken out about his three and a half years in an Iranian prison, having . Abedini, who was imprisoned in 2012, described severe beatings and extensive periods in solitary confinement. He also said the judge who sentenced him had claimed he planned to use Christianity . . . Read More

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