Jerusalem Post - Iran Sentences US pastor to 8 years for Christianity

By Benjamin Weinthal, JPost.com

Iran’s “hanging judge” convicted and sentenced American-Iranian Pastor Saeed Abedini on Sunday to eight years in Evin Prison because of his Christian faith.

Jordan Sekulow, executive director of the Washington-based American Center for Law and Justice, informed The Jerusalem Post on Sunday of the conviction. His organization represents Abedini’s family in the US and is working to secure his release. . . .

Sekulow wrote “the evidence provided was of Pastor Saeed [Abedini]’s Christian activities primarily during the early 2000s, when under then-president [Mohammad] Khatami house churches were not perceived as a threat to Iran. Despite Iranian law requiring a written verdict, none was given. . . .

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