Morning Star News - Iranian-American Pastor Abedini Writes of Torture, Pressure to Renounce Faith

By Morning Star News

An Iranian-American pastor imprisoned for planting house churches in Iran years ago writes that he is undergoing torture, death threats, and pressure to renounce his faith from prison officials and inmates.

Saeed Abedini, 32, described his ordeal in a letter to family members that was released by his U.S.-based attorneys. In the letter, dated Feb. 18, he said that maltreatment in the notorious Evin Prison is such that his eyes “get blurry, my body does not have the strength to walk, and my steps become very weak and shaky.”. . .

Prison officials and Muslim extremists inside his cell have used various methods to “punish” Abedini for converting to Christianity. In one case, the leader of his cell attacked him when he was singing praise songs, said Tiffany Barrans, international legal director of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ). . . .

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