some of the Christian converts have been arrested around Tehran in the Christmas day, the big feast of Christians.
According to the Committee of Human Rights Reporter, the security forces raided and entered to a home church in Rodehen city, in the east of the Tehran province, and arrested some of Christian converts whose names are Mahdi Kian, Ali Sadr Al Din (the Brother Stephan), Mohammad Kazemi, Azin Froudi, MohammadHossein Moridian, Maryam Narimany, Alireza Nasseri, The brother Matin and one other person (whit unknown identity) and transferred them to an unknown place.
On Thursday, a group of pious Christians gathered to pray for the birth of Jesus Christ (Christmas). In the meanwhile a number of plainclothes officers with guns and handheld transceivers raided and entered the place with unrespectful behavior. They searched the place and confiscated computers, books, and leaflets, mobile phones and …, also they arrested and move these Christians to the vans.
The security forces also unrespectfuly treated with one of the neighbors who questioned officers about their actions, they confiscated the mobile phone and identity document of this witness.
The place of the arrestees, the arrester organization, and the full identity of all the arrestees are yet unknown.
According to other report, Pastor Abedini of Christian converts who has Iranian-American citizenship and was arrested in September-October 2012 (Mehr of 1391) in his trip to Iran with “the purpose of visiting his family and starting an orphanage”, has been sentenced to 8 years in jail and now he is in Gohardasht prison (known as Rajai Shahr), a prison in Gohardasht, a town in Karaj.
Nowadays, tens of converts and religious Christians, like Bahaie activists and citizens, Dervishes [mystics], Sunnites [or Sunnis, a branch of Islam] and other heresy are locked up in prisons and detention camps of Islamic Republic of Iran.
Recently, in 24th session of the Human Rights Council, Ahmed Shaheed, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran, submitted his report on the continuation of oppression and even execution of ethnic and religious groups. Mr. Shaheed has warned about violations of rights of religious minorities like Yarsan, Baha’is, Christians, Dervishes, and Sunni Muslims in this report, and pronounce it critical.
