Tag: Karaj

Iranian officials interrogate 65-year-old Christian woman for 10 days, day and night

February 1, 2019 Iran Evin Prison, Iran, Isfahan, Karaj, Shiraz

Some Christians end up in Tehran's infamous Evin Prison, referred to as "the world's most brutal prison". (Photo: Getty Images)

Iranian authorities continue to arrest Christians, among them a 65-year-old woman who was held in detention and interrogated for ten days, day and night. Security officials raided Ruhsari Kamberi’s home in Karaj, 50km west of the capital Tehran, a few days before Christmas while she was there with four other . . . Read More

Iran: Crackdown on Christians continues with reports of beatings

December 19, 2018 Iran Ahwaz, Converts, House churches, Iran, Karaj, Khuzestan, Mashhad

Christian leaders in Iran have said that pressure on Christians increases every year around Christmas but that this year it is particularly severe. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

At least seven Iranian Christian converts have been arrested in Iran in the last two weeks, including two sisters who allegedly have been beaten. Shima Zanganeh, 27, and her sister, Shokoufeh, 30, were arrested by Intelligence Service officials in their homes in Ahvaz, capital of Iran’s western Khuzestan province, on 2 . . . Read More

Iran: ‘staggering’ number of Christians arrested – 114 in a week

December 5, 2018 Iran Amin Afshar Naderi, Christmas, Ebrahim Firouzi, Evin Prison, Iran, Karaj, Maryam Naghash Zargaran, Prisons, Proselytism, Rajaei Shahr Prison, Tehran

Over 100 Christians have been arrested in Iran in the past week and nearly 150 in the past month, as part of the government’s attempt to “warn” Christians against proselytising over Christmas, according to the advocacy director of religious freedom charity Article 18. Mansour Borji called the number of arrests . . . Read More

Two Iranian converts arrested and taken to unknown locations

November 21, 2018 Iran Converts, House churches, Iran, Karaj, Mashhad, Rajaei Shahr Prison

Behnam Ersali and Davood Rasooli were arrested last week Friday, 16 November. (Photo: Mohabat News, Facebook)

Two Iranian Christian converts were taken by Iran’s security agents in two separate raids on houses in Karaj and Mashhad on Friday, 16 November, reports Middle East Concern (MEC). Behnam Ersali and Davood Rasooli had agreed to meet in Mashhad on Friday when they were both arrested. It is believed . . . Read More

Temporary release for one Iranian Christian, court hearings for others

May 14, 2018 Iran Converts, Evin Prison, Iran, Karaj, Shamiram Isavi Khabizeh, Tehran, Victor Bet-Tamraz

An Iranian Christian imprisoned last year for actions against national security has been granted “a few days” leave of absence, according to London-based advocacy organisation Article 18. Sevada Aghaser, a choir leader in an Armenian Orthodox church in the capital Tehran, is serving a five-year sentence in the capital’s notorious . . . Read More

Iranian Christian arrested 45 days ago tells family: ‘I’m in Evin Prison’

April 16, 2018 Iran Evin Prison, Iran, Karaj, Maryam Rostampour, Marziyeh Amirizadeh, Tehran

The outside of the Evin prison in Tehran. Photo: Flickr/ SabzPhoto

An Iranian Christian convert, about whom nothing had been heard since his arrest 45 days ago, was able to contact his family over the weekend to let them know he is being held in the notorious Evin Prison, in the capital Tehran. A spokesman for advocacy organisation Article 18, Kiaa . . . Read More

Iran: Christian retreat centre ordered to close by tomorrow

March 9, 2018 Iran Assemblies of God, Ayatollah Khamenei, Churches, Converts, Iran, Karaj, Protestants, Robert Asseriyan

A Christian retreat centre in Iran will finally close tomorrow, 10 March, nearly three years after it was ordered to do so and then later accused of being funded by the USA’s “CIA spy agency”. The caretakers of the Sharon Retreat Centre in Karaj, west of Tehran, have been ordered . . . Read More

Iranian Christian convert detained since before Christmas

February 16, 2018 Iran Amin Afshar Naderi, Converts, Ebrahim Firouzi, Hadi Asgari, Iran, Karaj, Kaviyan Fallah-Mohammadi, Maryam Naghash Zargaran, Prisons, Tabriz, Victor Bet-Tamraz

An Iranian convert to Christianity arrested more than two months ago remains in prison in the conservative north-western city of Tabriz, according to rights group Article 18. Ali Amini, known by his friends as Philip, was arrested by revolutionary guards at his workshop in the city on 10 December. His . . . Read More

Iran: Four Christian converts detained after police raid houses and businesses

December 20, 2017 Iran Iran, Karaj

Four Iranian Christian converts were arrested by police last week in Karaj, a city 52 km west of the capital Tehran. A spokesman for advocacy organisation Article 18, Kiaa Aalipour, said that “Milad Goudarzi, Amin Khaki, Alireza Nour-Mohammadi and Shehabuddin Shahi were all arrested by security forces on Tuesday, December . . . Read More

Christian children in Iran told: ‘study Islam or leave school’

September 8, 2017 Iran Children, Church of Iran, Ebrahim Firouzi, Eskander Rezaie, Iran, Islamic extremism, Karaj, Maryam Naghash Zargaran, Mohammad Reza Omidi, Rasht, Saheb Fadaie, Shiraz, Soroush Saraei, Yasser Mossayebzadeh, Youcef Nadarkhani

Christian children in two large Iranian cities have been told to either study Shia Islam or leave school. The children are members of the non-Trinitarian ‘Church of Iran’ denomination in the northern city of Rasht, near the Caspian Sea, and the historical southern city of Shiraz, respectively. Until recently the . . . Read More

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