NCRI – On July 26, the mullahs' agents of the notorious Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) attacked a house-church in the small township of Malak in the suburbs of the central city of Isfahan.
In the raid, eight men, 6 women and two children were arrested. The victims were transferred to an unknown location. Among the detainees, there was an elderly couple in their 60s. The suppressive forces beat up these two senior citizens causing them serious injuries. They were transferred to Shariati Hospital in Isfahan where they were hospitalized in ICU.
The MOIS agents thoroughly searched the house for forbidden Christian books and literatures.
In a similar raid on a house-church in October of last year, the MOIS agents arrested a Christian couple in Karaj 40 kilometers west of the capital.
Again in fall of 2006, the late Rev. Mahdi Dibaj's daughter, Fereshteh, and her husband were arrested for following Christ's teachings in a house-church in the holy city of Mashhad. The Rev. Dibaj was murdered on July 5, 1994 by the agents of the MOIS in a Tehran park.
The Iranian Resistance calls on all human rights organizations and the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression to condemn the systematic suppression of Christians in Iran. It also calls for urgent actions to free detained Christians in Isfahan.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 31, 2008
