Five Christian converts have been sentenced to a total of over 25 years in prison by the Iranian judiciary….. According to the human rights group Hengraw, which was created in 2016 to report on the hu man rights violations against Kurds in Iran, there has been no available information about the specific reason for the charge against the five Christian converts or the details of their accusations. Those sentenced to jail …include a 10-year jail term for Christian convert Hamid Afzali, along with five-year jail terms for Nasrollah Mousavi, Bijan Gholizadeh, and Iman Salehi. Zohrab Shahbazi received nine months of jail time. The report explained that while Christians are “acknowledged as a religious minority in Iran, authorities impose severe penalties, especially on those who convert from Islam to Christi anity.”
Hengraw noted that Yasin Mousavi was another Christian convert who was arrested …and “sentenced to 15 years in prison by the judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran.” …Mousavi was among those arrested in the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, which took place in 2022. Prominent Iranian political prisoner Fatemeh Sepehri, who in the past has criticized the Islamic Republic and was also arrested during the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, was sentenced last week to an additional 18 and a half years in prison after condemning the Hamas October 7 attacks and supporting Israel.
[EDITORS: In countries dominated by Christian principles today there is freedom for a Christian to become a Muslim, but in Muslim countries, if you convert to Christianity, you are lucky if go to jail. Normally you’d be killed by relatives. Church/state systems are bad news no matter what the religion. Millions were killed during the Dark Ages by the church/state papal Empire. The Image of the Beast—a union of church and state here in America—will soon bring persecution to Sab bath keeping Christians.]