Hamid Pourmand was a Protestant minister of the Assemblies...

Hamid Pourmand was a Protestant minister of the Assemblies of God Church.
He had converted from Islam. It was reported that since September 2004 he had been held in prison at an undisclosed location and under Iranian law he could be put to death for "apostasy against Islam".
He was arrested on September 9 in Karaj, a town 30 km west of the capital Tehran during a police raid against the annual General Council of the Assemblies of God Church.
Since his arrest, Pourmand had been able to talk briefly to is wife (an Assyrian Christian) by phone and tell her that he was alright. At the time of his arrest, she and their children were in Tehran visiting relatives.
Upon her return home, she found that their home had been searched and family documents and photos taken. The September raid against the council of the Assemblies of God came in the wake of several arrests of Christians in northern Iran in May and June.
In July 1994, Mehdi Dibaj, another minister of the Assemblies of God Church who was also a convert from Islam, was killed after spending nine years in prison for refusing to abjure his Christian faith and return to Islam.