Five Iranian converts to Christianity were arrested while celebrating Christmas together in Tehran, reports Mohabat News.
Ahmad Bazyar, Fagheh Nasrollahi, Mastaneh Rastegari, Amir-Hossein Ne’matollahi and another man with the surname of Hosseini were arrested on Christmas Eve at Mr. Hosseini’s house and taken to an unknown location.
Meanwhile Mohabat News reports that another Iranian Christian serving a six-year jail sentence in Karaj has written to the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights to complain after his family home was raided, with his wife and children at home.
Behnam Irani wrote from prison: “[The] Islamic regime of Iran does not seem to be tired of persecuting the followers of non-Islamic faiths and is seeking to establish a religious dictatorship… Iranian authorities raided our homes and made the sweetness of Christmas bitter for us.”
