Gender: Female
Perpetrator: Iran
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment
Nayereh Arjaneh is imprisoned for her religious conversion and activity.
On July 7, 2025, Iranian authorities arrested Arjaneh and her husband at their home for attending a Christian seminar in Turkey.
The Revolutionary Court of Garmsar sentenced her to 5 years' imprisonment for “promoting deviant propaganda and teachings contrary to Islamic law" and 5 years' imprisonment for "providing financial and material support to groups affiliated with Zionist Christianity." Authorities fined her 225 million toman and ruled she serve her two prison terms concurrently.