Iran security forces arrest Christians in several provinces
According to the state-run Fars News Agency, security institutions arrested and interrogated several Iranian Christians across the country. Fars said ...
Tag: Iranian Christians
According to Iranian law, evangelism, missionary work, and converting to Christianity can be a crime meriting a sentence of more than 10 years imprisonment. The distribution of Christian literature in Persian is currently illegal in Iran.
There is officially no crime known as apostasy in the penal code (although there was a law about it prior to 1994). The last known execution for this crime was in 1990. However, despite there being no official civil law of apostasy, judges may still convict a defendant of that crime if they rule based on religious fatwas.
IRGC arrests two Christian converts in NW and SW cities
Iranian security forces arrested two Christian converts in northwestern and southwestern cities in Iran. The two men were taken to ...
Tehran court sentences 3 Iranian Christian converts to 35-year prison term
A Tehran court of appeals upheld the 35-year prison terms for three Iranian Christian converts. According to human rights websites, ...
Iran security forces arrest female Christian convert in Tehran
Iranian security forces arrested a female Christian convert in Tehran, after searching her home and confiscating her personal belongings. According ...
4 Iranian Christian converts detained to serve 5-year prison term in Tehran
Four Iranian Christian converts were summoned by the regime’s Judiciary to serve their prison sentence in Tehran’s Evin Prison. According ...
Iran Christian sentenced to 10 years of prison demands justice from prison
A jailed Iranian Christian wrote an open letter from Tehran’s Evin Prison demanding to know why he had been sentenced ...
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