Two weeks after the arrest of a number of Christians in different venues in Tehran by the Revolutionary Guard, the news is still unclear.
According to the Iranian Human Rights Activists Network, on Tuesday, July 25, 2017, thirteen activists and members of the churches in Tehran, Ray were arrested by the Revolutionary Guards, whose status is still unknown.
According to the report, Brother Vahik, David Issayan, Amir Hossein Noor, Fariba Sharifi, Maryam Tavassoli, Vahid Zohradi, Hamed Emadi, Ishi Mouvehchi, Vahid Shirzad, Hadi Badazhahr, Rauf Hossein Zadeh, Zahra Piriaee along with an Unknown Person, by The IRGC agents were arrested and transferred to unknown locations.
The Iranian regime’s media, quoting sources close to the Revolutionary Guards, immediately released the images of the Christians immediately after the arrest, showing that dozens of Biblical books, theological books, educational books and CDs have been duped and seized.
According to reports, after the arrest of these people, their homes and some of them have been subjected to an attack and inspection, and some belongings, such as satellite, computer, books and CD, have been confiscated and seized.
Also, frequent referrals from families of detainees to security and judicial authorities have not yielded any results and concern about the status and fate of these individuals has risen.
According to recent reports, the families of some of the detainees, when referring to various branches of the judiciary, demanded a clear indication of their whereabouts and their situation, faced with a bad and threatening encounter with the judiciary and security officials.
It should be noted that, as the Fars news agency affiliated with the Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IRGC’s Provincial Guard Corps (IRGC), on Tuesday, “arrested a” large network “of their Christian followers during a series of sophisticated intelligence activities.
The Revolutionary Guards have argued that the detainees were “religious deviators”, “missionaries and propagators of Christianity,” and “members of the evangelical churches,” which, in addition to “propagating Christianity,” sought to “disturb the public’s minds and deviate young people in public space, and Internet “.
A report released by the Revolutionary Guards said that “among the documents obtained from detainees, there are various books related to the propagation of Christianity, methods of networking, engagement, communication with foreigners and the destruction of Islam.”
In recent years, especially after the leader of the Islamic Republic and some Shiite authorities warned, the pressure on Christian heads in Iran has grown and now dozens of nuns and Christian believers are in prisons and detention centres of the Islamic Republic.
It is also prohibited to publish and distribute the Bible of Christians in Persian, and the Protestant churches are closed down and their church ceremonies are prevented.
According to the website of Mohabet News, Mansour Barji, spokeswoman for “Article 18 on defending the rights of Christians in Iran,” has said that in recent months the pressure on Protestant Christians, especially Persian Christians, has risen again, and those accused of accusations Security is being held in jail with lengthy sentences of imprisonment.
This senior activist and leader of the Iranian Church in Britain, referring to the issuance of a 125-year prison sentence for 12 Christians in recent months, in response to the question of what special sentences are issued by the judges of the Islamic Revolutionary Tribunal? “This situation is exacerbating security concerns for religious minorities in Iran, especially Protestant Christians,” he said. »
Now, dozens of Christians and evangelical activists are in the Islamic Republic’s detention centres and prisons.
