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Iran: Joseph Shahbazian granted retrial

Iran’s Supreme Court has agreed to a retrial for imprisoned pastor Joseph Shahbazian

Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani has shared a letter he wrote on the day of his release “as a testimony and to express my gratitude”

The Global Guide was formally launched by Rev Trevor Sargent (Church of Ireland minister and former Green Party leader).

Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani has been released as part of an amnesty marking the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution

Saheb Fadaie has been released from Evin prison and has returned home to his wife and daughter in Rasht

The wife of a pastor serving a six-year prison sentence is facing her own charges of “propagating Christianity” and “propaganda against the state”

Many Iranian Christian asylum-seekers in Turkey are being detained in terrible conditions in deportation camps

Naser Navard Gol-Tapeh was unexpectedly released from Evin prison on 17 October and Fariba Dalir was released on the following day.

Mansour Borji (Director of Article 18) described the current situation

Iranian-Armenian pastor Joseph Shahbazian has begun serving his ten-year sentence in Evin prison