Additional Name(s): Abbas Suri

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: Iran

Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other

Date of Detainment: November//2024

Current Status: Not Released

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Abbas Soori

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Abbas Soori is imprisoned for his religious activity and conversion. 

In November 2024, Iranian intelligence authorities arrested Abbas Soori while raiding his home, confiscating Bibles and crosses. 

In March 2025, Judge Iman Afshari of Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced him to 15 years' imprisonment for “propaganda activities” and membership of an “opposition group.”

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: Iran

Religion or Belief: Unknown

Date of Detainment: August//2025

Current Status: Not Released

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Mohammad-Reza Asadi

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Mohammad-Reza Asadi is imprisoned for his religious freedom advocacy. 

In August 2025, Iranian authorities arrested Nik-Ahd for attending the memorial service of a man who was killed by government officials during nationwide protests in 2022 against religiously grounded mandatory hijab laws. 

In September 2025, authorities sentenced him to 6 years' imprisonment and 74 lashes for blasphemy and disrupting the public order.

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: Iran

Religion or Belief: Unknown

Date of Detainment: August//2025

Current Status: Not Released

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Mostafa Kamani

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Mostafa Kamani is imprisoned for his religious freedom advocacy. 

In August 2025, Iranian authorities arrested Kamani for attending the memorial service of a man who was killed by government officials during nationwide protests in 2022 against religiously grounded mandatory hijab laws. 

In September 2025, authorities sentenced him to 6 years' imprisonment and 74 lashes for blasphemy and disrupting the public order.