Name: Saeede (Kathrin) Sajadpour Country/Area of Origin: Rasht, Iran Background: Sajadpour is a Christian convert Reason for Arrest: In February 2020, Saeede (Kathrin) Sajadpour, her husband Ramin Hassanpour, and two other Iranian Christian converts – Sakine (Mehri) Behjati, and Hadi (Moselm) Rahimi – were arrested for their membership in the local Rasht division of the Church …
Name: Ramin Hassanpour Country/Area of Origin: Rasht, Iran Background: Hassanpour is a Christian convert Reason for Arrest: In February 2020, Ramin Hassanpour, his wife Saeede (Kathrin) Sajadpour, and two other Iranian Christian converts – Sakine (Mehri) Behjati, and Hadi (Moselm) Rahimi – were arrested for their membership in the local Rasht division of the Church of …
Name: Hadi (Moslem) Rahimi Age: 32 Country/Area of Origin: Rasht, Iran Background: Rahimi is a Christian convert Reason for Arrest: In February 2020, Hadi Rahimi and three other Iranian Christian converts – Ramin Hassanpour, Sakine (Mehri) Behjati, and Saeede (Kathrin) Sajadpour – were arrested for their membership in the local Rasht division of the Church …
Name: Keshav Acharya Country/Area of Origin: Nepal Background: Keshav Acharya is the pastor of Abundant Harvest Church in Pokhara, Nepal. Pastor Keshav is 33 years old. Reason for Arrest: In late March 2020, Kaski District Police entered the home of and arbitrarily arrested Pastor Keshav in front of his family; authorities did not provide any …
Name: Amin Khaki Country/Area of Origin: Iran Background: Amin Khaki is an Iranian Christian convert Reason for Arrest: On 11 November 2020, Iranian intelligence authorities raided the homes of Amin Khaki, Milad Gourdazi, and Alireza Nourmohammadi and confiscated Bibles as well as other personal property such as cellphones and computers; the three men were not …
Name: Alireza Nourmohammadi Country/Area of Origin: Iran Background: Alireza Nourmohammadi is an Iranian Christian convert Reason for Arrest: On 11 November 2020, Iranian intelligence authorities raided the homes of Alireza Nourmohammadi, Milad Gourdazi, and Amin Khaki and confiscated Bibles as well as other personal property such as cellphones and computers; the three men were not …
Name: Milad Gourdazi Country/Area of Origin: Iran Background: Milad Gourdazi is an Iranian Christian convert Reason for Arrest: On 11 November 2020, Iranian intelligence authorities raided the homes of Milad Gourdazi, Amin Khaki, and Alireza Nourmohammadi and confiscated Bibles as well as other personal property such as cellphones and computers; the three men were not …
Name: Foudhil Bahloul Country/Area of Origin: Algeria Background: Bahloul is a 35-year-old Christian convert from a Muslim background; Bahloul’s religious conversion in 2017 prompted his wife to for divorce, acquire custody of the couple’s two children, and accuse Bahloul of “attacking Islam.” Following his conversion to Christianity, Bahloul became a social pariah and was forced …
Name: Bitweded Abraha Country/Area of Origin: Eritrea Background: Prior to his detention in 1991, Bitweded Abraha was a noteworthy leader of the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front, a militant organization that fought for Eritrea’s independence from Ethiopia from 1970 to 1994. Abraha was a secret member of the EPLF until 1973, when he started trainings; by …
Name: Salma Tanveer Country/Area of Origin: Lahore, Pakistan Background: Tanveer, 50, is a Mulslim woman who worked as a headmistress of a private school in Lahore prior to her arrest. Reason for Arrest: Salma Tanveer had been allegedly disseminating photocopies of her various writings under the name “Mercy for all words”, a quote spoken by …
