Three weeks without news about the situation of Nowshahr Christian converts after their re-arrest

According to the Article 18 Organization, Jahangir Alikhani, Hamed Malamiri and Gholam Ishaqi, three Christian converts who were arrested by IRGC intelligence agents in Nowshahr on the 2nd and 3rd of October 1403, have been detained in an unknown location for more than three weeks. Despite repeated follow-ups by the families of these Christian citizens, little is known about their condition and they have not been allowed to contact a lawyer. According to a source close to the family of these detained Christian citizens, during the security forces raided the homes of these people, they "returned all the furniture and plowed the house completely." Jahangir Alikhani, Hamed Malamiri and Gholam Ishaqi were among the 20 Christian citizens who were arrested in Nowshahr and the outskirts of Chalous in coordinated raids by security agents at their homes. They faced a charge of Christianity. Security agents also filmed the attack on Christian homes and confiscated the Bible and Christian books. Christians have been attacked by security agents around Christmas in recent years. In attacking Christian homes, they confiscated the Bible in Persian and used it many times as a crime in court against Christians. At last Christmas arrests, some Christians were released later the same day after interrogation, but at least nine people, including Mr. Alikhani, Mr. Malamiri, and Ishaqi, were transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence detention center in Sari, where for the next two to five weeks about Christian belief and peaceful religious activity. They were interrogated. According to the report received by the Article 18 Organization of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office of Nowshahr, on the morning of their arrest, he met with the detained Christians for a short time, but did not officially inform them. During subsequent interrogations, detained oral Christians were accused of "establishing house churches", "propaganda of Christianity" and following the "disrupted religion for the holy religion of Islam" and were released on bail two to five weeks later. In addition, Christians were barred from leaving Iran for the next six months. Threatening and intimidation of the family and relatives Since May 19, this year, some members of their family and relatives arrested have been called unofficially by telephone for several consecutive days and have been subjected to long interrogations and intense pressure by the interrogators of the Ministry of Intelligence. During the interrogations of these Christian citizens, they were insulted and humiliated and reportedly beaten at least in one case. According to Article 18 sources, the intelligence interrogators threatened and intimidated them to arrest Christian converts and force their families to confess to having links to Christian countries or organizations abroad. Christians have repeatedly testified that their family members have been harassed, even unrelated to Christianity, and have been a means of intensifying pressure on imprisoned Christians. On September 27, 1403, fourteen of these Christians received a warning to appear in the First Branch of the Nowshahr Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office regarding the charge of "cooperating with hostile foreign states against the Islamic Republic of Iran and propagating against the Islamic Republic and insulting religion." Present their latest defenses through the press and its sanctities through the press. While Christians were waiting for the outcome of their trial, Jahangir Alikhani, Hamed Malamiri and Gholam Ishaqi were arrested by IRGC agents.