TURKEY: Iranian Christian asylum seekers endure terrible conditions in Turkish camps
Many Iranian Christian asylum-seekers in Turkey are being detained in terrible conditions in deportation camps
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
Christian converts Sara Ahmadi and Homayoun Zhaveh have been detained in Tehran’s Evin prison
Christian convert Mohammadreza Omidi has gone home after being released from exile
Three Christian converts have lost their appeals against their five-year prison sentences
Joseph Shahbazian has been sentenced to ten years in prison for leadership of a house church
House church leader Anooshavan Avedian has lost his appeal against his ten-year prison sentence
Iranian-Armenian Christian Anooshavan Avedian has been sentenced to ten years in prison for “propaganda contrary to and disturbing to the holy religion of Islam”