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Iran sentences filmmaker to 6 years in prison

by Zamaneh Media
December 20, 2010
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Iran sentences filmmaker to 6 years in prison
Jafar Panahi upon release from prison

Jafar Panahi, prominent Iranian filmmaker was sentenced to six years in prison and 20 years ban from filmmaking and travelling abroad.

ISNA reports that Farideh Gheyrat, Panahi’s lawyer has announced that she will appeal this “unusually heavy sentence.”
Panahi was arrested twice in the post-election protests to the alleged vote fraud that secured Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s victory in the 2009 presidential elections.

He was first arrested in August of 2009 at a commemoration ceremony for the victims who were killed in the post-election street demonstrations by government forces.

He was later arrested in March 2010 in a raid of his home. He was arrested with his family and guests, and a number of pro-government media suggested that he was arrested for planning a film about the protests.

While all the detainees of that night were released, Panahi remained in custody in an undetermined legal state for over three months and finally after a week on hunger strike, he was released on a $200,000 bail.

His trial was finally held in November after many delays and in it Panahi denied the charges against him and described the attacks against him as an attack on the totality of Iran’s art and culture community.

Panahi has been prevented by the Islamic Republic from attending a number of international film festivals including the Berlin and Venice festivals this year.
 

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