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Iran remained among world’s worst violators of religious freedom in 2025 – report
The Islamic Republic of Iran has once again been named among the world’s worst violators of...
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US Commission on International Religious Freedom 2026 Annual Report
The Islamic Republic of Iran has once again been named among the world’s worst violators of...
Amir-Ali Minaei
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Charge:
Establishing a house-church -
Sentence:
3 years & 7 months -
Urgent Concern:
Denied medical care
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The Seed of The Sacred Fig gives terrifying glimpse of what persecuted Christians face
The types of psychological – and in some instances physical – torture shown in The Seed of the Sacred Fig mirror the testimonies of the dozens of Christians interviewed by Article18 in recent years.
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Hakop Gochumyan
Armenian citizen Hakop Gochumyan is serving a 10-year prison sentence in Evin Prison for “engaging in deviant proselytising activity that contradicts the sacred law of Islam” through alleged membership and leadership of “a network of evangelical Christianity”.
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‘Our daughter was terrified, running around the room, shaking and crying’
Touraj and Elaheh’s youngest daughter, Elina, had just turned 10 years old and was still asleep...
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Alireza Aghajari
Introduction My name is Alireza Aghajari. I was born in June 1979 to a Muslim family in Shiraz and...
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