Thursday, June 20, 2013
Iran convicts six Christian converts
Convictions receive little news coverage in week of presidential election
Six Iranian converts to Christianity were convicted of crimes related to their membership in a house church, a news service has reported.
Mohabat News, which reports on news of Christians inside Iran, published a report on Sunday (June 16) claiming that four men, a woman and her teen-aged son were convicted by a Revolutionary Court in Shiraz, in southwestern Iran.
The four men were found guilty of attending a house church, spreading Christianity, having contact with foreign ministries, propaganda against the Iranian regime, and disrupting national security, Mohabat reported.
The news service identified the men as Mojtaba Seyyed-Alaedin Hossein; Homayoun Shokouhi ; Mohammad-Reza Partoei (Koorosh); and Vahid Hakkani. Read more
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