Gender: Male
Perpetrator: Iran
Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other
Date of Detainment: July/1/2025
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment
Mehran Shamloui is imprisoned for his religious conversion and activity.
In 2024, Iranian authorities arrested Shamloui for participating in a house church.
In March 2025, authorities sentenced him to 10 years' imprisonment for “membership of opposition groups” and “propaganda activities contrary to Islamic law through foreign relations” (Art. 499 and 500), as well as 11 years' deprivation of social rights.