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Iranian film director faces jail term for making enquiries

Published On: 20. Juli 2022 4:05

Award-winning Iranian film maker Jafar Panahi, who was detained in Tehran last week, has been ordered to serve six years in jail, Iran’s judiciary says.

Iranian media said Panahi was held after going to Evin prison to ask about one of two fellow directors arrested for supporting protests, according to the BBC.

Mohammad Rasoulof and Mostafa Al-e Ahmad were arrested over social media posts about the collapse of a 10-storey building in the city of Abadan in May that killed more than 40 people.

The two film makers were accused of ‘inciting unrest and disrupting the psychological security of society’, state news agency Irna reported.

Panahi, 62, who has won many international awards, including from the Berlin International Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival, was sentenced to six years in prison in 2010 for supporting mass anti-government protests and for ‘propaganda against the system’. According to AFP, after serving two months he was released on conditional bail.

His wife, Tahereh Saeedi, told the BBC that he had been informed by guards this week that he had an outstanding prison sentence to serve.

But she protested that his detention amounted to kidnapping.

Saeedi is quoted as saying: ‘Jafar has some rights as a citizen. There’s due process. To imprison someone, they need to be summoned first. But to imprison someone who is protesting outside the jail raises a lot of questions. This is a kidnapping.’

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