Iran: Ethnic Armenian Iranian citizen released 

Iran: Ethnic Armenian Iranian citizen released 

Iranian Christians are delighted with the release of Joseph Shahbazian (59), an Iranian of Armenian descent. Joseph was arrested on 30 June 2020 when the Revolutionary Guard Corps raided a Christian meeting in a home in Tehran. He was charged with “acting against...
Iran: Former prisoner pardoned 

Iran: Former prisoner pardoned 

Iranian Christians are pleased that a two-year term of internal exile, which was part of sentences issued in 2017, has been dropped for Christian convert Zaman (Saheb) Fadaei. Saheb was arrested along with pastor Yousef Nadarkhani and three other Christian converts in...
Iran: Two pastors from the “Church of Iran” face new charges

Iran: Two pastors from the “Church of Iran” face new charges

Friends of Yousef Nadarkhani and Abdolreza (Matthias) Haghnejad request prayer after they were informed they were required to go to court on unspecified security charges. Two members of the same religious movement made a complaint about them to the Iranian...
Iran: Ethnic Armenian Iranian citizen released 

Iran: Prison sentence reduced on appeal

Iranian Christians are encouraged that the Tehran Court of Appeal has reduced the 10-year prison sentence against Armenian Iranian Joseph Shahbazian for “acting against national security through promoting Zionist Christianity” to two years’ imprisonment,...
Iran: Christian convert couple acquitted

Iran: Christian convert couple acquitted

Iranian Christians are delighted that Homayoun Zhaveh and his wife Sara Ahmadi have been acquitted following a review of their sentences. On 9 May the  Appeal Court in Tehran reviewed their prison sentences handed down in November 2020 and ordered their release....