AHWAZ,
IRAN – (ANS)- Concern is growing in Iran over health condition of
Pastor Farhad Sabokroh who was arrested together with two other Christian
converts. They have now been in custody for over 40 days.

According to the Iranian Christian
news agency, Mohabat News (www.mohabatnews.com), family, relatives and a
wide range of Iranian Christians within and outside Iran expressed their
concern over the health condition of Pastor Farhad Sabokroh, who was arrested
on December 23, 2011, with others in attendance at the Christmas service of the
Assemblies of God (AOG) church of Ahwaz, where he was pastoring.

According to this report, sources
affirmed that Pastor Sabokroh, Naser Zamen-Defzuli and Davoud (David) Alijani
were transferred to Karoun prison of Ahwaz. They have now been held in prison
for over 40 days. They were arrested by security authorities in Ahwaz, (543
miles south west of Tehran, the Capital), which is in Khuzestan province.

“Prior to his arrest, Pastor
Sabokroh was under treatment for cataract disease and underwent surgery but now
has no access to a doctor,” a spokesperson for Mohabat News told the
ASSIST News Service.

“Knowledgeable sources define
his situation concerning this because, after the surgery, he needed to visit
his doctor on a regular basis for the required medications. Now, with this
situation, he is still not allowed to leave the prison after over 40 days to
continue his treatment.”

Christian Prisoners’ Rights Advocacy
Club sent a report to Mohabat News expressing their deep concern and objection
to illegal and inhuman acts by the Iranian Security system towards Iranian
Christians, especially Pastor Sabokroh and the two other Christian prisoners
who are being held with him.

They called on the Intelligence and
Judicial systems of Iran to free them immediately and grant Christian prisoners
their legal and human rights. This organization also considers
the continuation of Pastor Sabokroh’s medical treatment as his human right
and adjudged the authorities as directly responsible for the health and welfare
of Christian prisoners.

Pastor Sabokroh’s wife was allowed
to visit him briefly on January 27, 2012, and expressed concern over his health
condition.

“It’s being said that he spends
most of his time in prayer and fasting in his cell. His physical situation is
extremely bad and he has lost weight. He also asked all Iranian Christians to
pray for the release of Christian prisoners,” added the Mohabat News
spokesperson.

“It should be remembered that
Mrs. Shanaz Jeizan, the wife of Pastor Sabokroh was also among those arrested
at Christmas in the AOG church of Ahwaz. After 10 days, she was temporarily
released from the Intelligence office of Ahwaz after submitting a house title
deed as bail.”

According to this report, no news is
available regarding the condition of the two other prisoners, Davoud Alijani
and Naser Zamen-Dezfuli. They’re still being held in uncertainty and without
being formally charged.”

The reports also indicate that
Noorollah Qabitizade, another Christian convert who was arrested on December,
24, 2010, is still being held in Karoun prison of Ahwaz.

“He was subjected to severe
interrogations by Intelligence officers from the time of his arrest,”
added the spokesperson. “It is being reported that security authorities
and interrogators have put him under different mental pressures including
forcing him to sign commitments stating that he won’t participate in any
evangelical activities and to write repentance notes renouncing Christianity,
in order to make him discontinue his faith in Christ.”

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About Dan Wooding

Dan Wooding is an award winning British journalist now living in Southern California with his wife Norma, to whom he has been married for 46 years. He is the founder and international director of ASSIST
(Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times) and the ASSIST News Service
(ANS).

Wooding was, for ten years, a commentator, on the UPI Radio Network in Washington, DC., and now hosts the weekly “Front Page Radio” show on KWVE in Southern California and which is also carried on the Calvary Radio Network throughout the United States. The program is also aired in Great Britain on Calvary Chapel Radio UK. Wooding also a regular contributor to The Weekend Stand on the Crawford Broadcasting Network, and a host for His Channel Live, which is carried via the Internet to some 192 countries. He is the author of some 43 books. Two of the latest include his autobiography, “From Tabloid to Truth”, which is published by Theatron Books.

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