IRAN: CHRISTIAN COUPLE FLEES

After spending eight months in prison with no formal charges, two Iranian Christians fled Iran upon receiving threats from the Ministry of State Security. They now await resettlement in another country by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Arash Kermajani, 29, and his 26-year-old wife, Arezoo Teymouri, were detained while visiting Pastor Vahik Abrahamian and Sonia Keshish Avanesian in Hamedan in September 2010. The secret police burst in while the four Christians were watching a film. The couple was eventually transferred to a secret prison and separated, spending part of their time in solitary confinement.