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Iran: Christian convert arrested in Mashhad

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“A new Christian convert university student living in Mashhad that was released temporary from detention last year with 80 thousand dollar bail, has been arrested again,” Farsi Christian News Network reports.

12/13/2011 Iran (FCNN) – A new Christian convert university student living in Mashhad that was released temporary from detention last year with 80 thousand dollar bail, has been arrested again. His current status is unknown.

According to the Farsi Christian News Network quoted a Christian source in Mashhad (North – East of Iran), now is more than a month close friends and relatives of “Ehsan Behrouz”, a new Christian converts  student of Mashhad university, do not have any information about him.

Since November 7, 2011, nobody has seen Ehsan.  Source said “Friends and relatives who have been unable to contact him”. His family says that he is in traveling.  It seems they are prohibited from disclosing their child's custody.

Reliable reports shows he again was arrested without reason and no news of the arrest, file charges against him and his current status is unknown.

23 years old Ehsan Behrouz last year arrested on Thursday, July 18th, when a group of 15 newly converted Christians, who were travelling to the provincial town of Bojnoord to meet and to fellowship with the believers of that town, were arrested in the city of Mashhad, the capital of the North Eastern province of Khorasan.

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