by Barbi Larkins | May 10, 2022 | Updates, Youcef Nadarkhani
by VOM NZ | On April 15, 2022 Youcef Nadarkhani was given a week’s furlough, on bail of 300 million tomans, (around $11,500), which was later extended by a further seven days to spend time in Rasht, with his wife Tina and sons Danial and Youeil. This was his...
by Barbi Larkins | May 10, 2022 | Nguyen Trung Ton, Updates
by VOM NZ | Nguyen Trung Ton’s wife, Lanh, attempted to visit her husband in March this year. It is a long distance to the prison. She travelled with the wife of another prisoner. Unfortunately the women were not allowed to see their husbands. The last time...
by Barbi Larkins | May 4, 2022 | Fariba Dalir, Iran, Updates
Iranian Christians request prayer for Fariba Dalir as she serves a two-year prison sentence for “acting against national security by establishing and leading an Evangelical Christian church.” In July 2021 agents from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)...
by Barbi Larkins | Apr 13, 2022 | Iran, Released, Updates
Reeza Zaeemi Released – August 8, 2021 Reeza Zaeemi was released from prison on August 8, 2021, on condition, ‘he wears an electronic tag for the remainder of his nine month sentence’. He is banned from leaving Iran for two years following the completion...
by Barbi Larkins | Mar 26, 2022 | Released, Updates, Yang Hua
Pastor Yang Hua returned to his home in Guizhou province after completing a two-and-a half year jail term. Leading up to his trial, prosecutors tortured him multiple times in an effort to extract a confession. While in prison, Yang contracted vasculitis and had to be...
by Barbi Larkins | Sep 27, 2021 | Updates
FREEDOM FOR IRANIAN CONVERT: We thank God for Majid Reza release from prison in April 2021. Pray for MajidReza, who caught Covid while in detention, as he looks for work and adjusts to life outside...
by VOM NZ | Aug 7, 2021 | Updates, Wang Yi
Authorities have placed Jiang Rong, the wife of Pastor Wang Yi, under house arrest. Jiang had previously been freed on bail. Although Jiang was released on bail, she has now been barred from interacting with family, friends and church members. When officials arrested...
by VOM NZ | Jul 7, 2021 | Naser Gol-Tapeh, Updates
July 2021 Christian prisoner of conscience Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh has been told his request for conditional release has been rejected. The news comes as a bitter blow to the Christian convert, who turns 60 in August, having been regularly assured by prison...
by VOM NZ | Jun 11, 2021 | Iran, Kamal Naamanian, Released, Updates
Naamanian was included in the group of 85,000 prisoners that Iran temporarily released in efforts to reduce the threat of COVID-19 spreading in detention centres on 17 March 2020. The 5 year sentence officially began on 2 June...
by VOM NZ | Jun 11, 2021 | Naser Gol-Tapeh, Updates
August 2020 In early August, Naser developed symptoms of Covid-19. Despite being ill with fever, the only medical care he received was a few painkillers, and he was not tested. Naser is being held in Evin prison’s overcrowded Ward 8, where twelve out of seventeen...
by VOM NZ | Jun 11, 2021 | Ebrahim Firouzi, Released, Updates
27 September 2020 Ebrahim was summoned to appear before the prosecutor in Rask, near Sarbaz, to answer fresh charges of “insulting the sacred” and “propaganda against the state through promoting the Christian faith”. After listening to Ebrahim for just ten minutes,...
by VOM NZ | Jun 7, 2021 | Updates, Wang Yi
June 2021 Though Chengdu prison officials have stated that Wang Yi is doing well in prison, a secret source says that’s not true. According to the source, prison authorities are holding Pastor Wang Yi in ‘closed’ imprisonment. He is not allowed to...
by VOM NZ | May 8, 2021 | Updates
Jamaa Bakrim was due to be released from Prison Centrale, in Kenitra, South Morocco in December 2020, but remains in prison. In 2005, Jamaa was sentenced to 15 years in prison for setting fire to two unused wooden electricity poles, because they had been out of use...
by VOM NZ | Apr 7, 2021 | Iran, Released, Updates
On September 5, 2019 Fatemeh Bakhteri was charged with ‘propaganda against the system’, and sentenced to one years imprisonment, followed by two-years deprivation of all social activities, membership in political and social groups and associations with...
by VOM NZ | Mar 18, 2021 | Updates, Zhang Shaojie
Zhang Shaojie was transferred to another prison in January 2021. According to an official letter received by his sister, Zhang Shaojie will spend the next two months in “concentrated education” at the Zhengzhou City prison. After the initial two-month period,...
by VOM NZ | Mar 11, 2021 | Released, Updates
Source: Prisoner Alert On 27 May 2015, Zhao was sentenced to four years in prison under the charge of “using a cult organization to undermine law...
by VOM NZ | Mar 11, 2021 | Released, Updates
On 27 May 2015, Cheng was sentenced to three years in prison under the charge of “using a cult organization to undermine law enforcement.” According to Prisoner Release, Cheng has now been...
by VOM NZ | Mar 2, 2021 | Eritrea, Released, Twen | Eritrea, Updates
According to a recent report from Church in Chains, Twen Theodoros was released in late 2020. Twen has been in prison since 2005. Helen Berhane writes of her friendship with Twen in her autobiography, Song of the Nightingale. As they suffered together in the same...
by VOM NZ | Mar 2, 2021 | Eritrea, Released, Updates
According to a recent report from Church in Chains, at least 83 Christians have been released since late January (2021), including Mussie Eyob. Some of those released had been held in captivity for more than ten years, often under horrific conditions. Mussie has been...
by VOM NZ | Mar 2, 2021 | Released, Updates
Pastor A Dao, who is the leader of the Montagnard Evangelical Church of Christ, has been released from prison after serving four years of his five-year prison sentence. He advocated for religious freedom for his fellow church members in the Central Highlands and...
