ICC Note:  An Iranian Christian was detained in his country without probable cause last month. The victim is still detained. According to witnesses and other news sources, at least 20 other Iranian Christians have been detained also around the same time but were released after several interrogations.

4/11/2018 Iran (Radio Farda) – The whereabouts of an Iranian Christian convert who was detained by Iran’s security forces more than a month ago is still unknown.

“Newly converted to Christianity, Aziz Majidzadeh was meeting his friends March 2 at their workshop near the city of Karaj when the security forces stormed the place,” spokesperson for religious freedom advocacy group Article 18, Kiarash Alipour, told Radio Farda.

Alipour said twenty other Iranian Christian converts were detained in a sweep around the same time as Majidzadeh. Their personal effects, including their cell phones and laptops, were confiscated.

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