Iran sentences 18 to prison over faith
(Worthy News)– Iran’s revolutionary court imposed harsh prison sentences last week on 18 Christian converts for charges including evangelism, propaganda against the regime, and creating house churches to practice their faith, according to sources with knowledge of the Islamic Republic’s secretive judicial system, Fox News reported.
The sentences totaled just shy of 24 years, according to a Persian-language report on the website of the U.S.-funded Radio Farda.The lack of transparency in Iran’s tightly censored and controlled judicial system did not allow for a breakdown of individual sentences. The defendants were also barred from organizing church home meetings and given a two-year ban from leaving Iran. –[wp_colorbox_media url=”http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/06/02/crackdown-on-christianity-iran-sentences-18-to-prison-over-faith/” type=”iframe” hyperlink=”Source”]
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