IRAN: Joseph Shahbazian pardoned and released
Armenian-Iranian house-church leader Joseph Shahbazian has been released from prison after receiving a court pardon
Category: Iran
IRAN: Number of confirmed arrests increases across eleven cities
The number of confirmed arrests in the recent wave has risen to 69 Christians in eleven cities
IRAN: Saheb Fadaie’s term of internal exile dropped
Christian convert Saheb Fadaie has had his two-year term of internal exile dropped
IRAN: Mehdi Akbari writes of grief after son’s death
Christian convert Mehdi Akbari has written about his grief at the loss of his only child in a letter smuggled out of prison
IRAN: Over fifty Christians arrested in five cities
More than fifty Christian converts have been arrested in five Iranian cities over the past week
IRAN: Pastor Matthias Haghnejad moved to prison 1,600 km from home
Pastor Matthias Haghnejad has been moved to a prison 1,600 km away from his home and family
Oireachtas Foreign Affairs Committee focuses on persecution of Christians worldwide
Church in Chains delegation included speakers from India, Iran and Nigeria
IRAN: Saheb Fadaie flogged again, faces internal exile
Christian convert Saheb Fadaie has been flogged a second time and faces two years’ internal exile in a remote part of Iran
TURKEY: New report highlights plight of Iranian Christian refugees
Critical need for Iranian Christian refugees to be given new resettlement opportunities
IRAN: Joseph Shahbazian’s sentence reduced to two years after retrial
Joseph Shahbazian’s ten-year prison sentence has been reduced to two years following a retrial