IRanian prison guards holding American Pastor Saeed
Abedini have reportedly given him a warning: deny Jesus Christ and
return to Islam or stay imprisoned for life.
Lawyers representing the 35-year-old Abedini say he's also facing increased psychological torment.
Saaed Abedini was convicted on January 27, 2013 and
condemned to eight years in prison. Now Iranian authorities are
threatening to extend that prison sentence, something his lawyers say
has been done to other Christian prisoners in the past.
"They find some other way to set them up for a falsehood and try them for additional convictions," Tiffany Barrans, with the American Center for Law and Justice, told CBN News.
According to Abedini's wife, Naghmeh, prison guards
have become increasingly hostile -- reportedly tormenting the American
pastor with constant psychological threats.
In a Facebook post, Naghmeh writes: "He has been
under a lot of pressure and attack from the hardliners...The guards have
also been threatening Saeed that he will never go free...They
continually threaten Saeed that the only key to his freedom is denying
Christ and returning to Islam."
Abedini is serving his sentence in one of the toughest prisons in Iran.
"This is a prison that was built for 5,000
individuals," Barrans explained. "Currently it is housing over 20,000.
So you've got incredible hygienic conditions, you've got threats from
other cellmates and certainly several of them see him as a threat right
now as Iran and the United States are negotiating this nuclear deal."
Naghmeh says recent prisoner executions have also
taken their toll on her husband. Despite the hardships, she writes that
he continues to remain strong in the faith.
Prayer and praise will set him free before the end of the year in Jesus Name AMEN. How God will do it I dont know but I belive he will be set free very soon
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