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Jafar Panahi: Prison Sentence Upheld

Six years in jail, 20-year ban for award-winning director

AFP: A Tehran appeals court has upheld a six-year jail sentence and 20-year filmmaking and travel ban against international award-winning Iranian director Jafar Panahi, his family told AFP on Saturday. The verdict, handed down around two weeks ago, has not yet been carried out, the family said. The government-run newspaper Iran confirmed the ruling in its Saturday edition, saying: "The charges he was sentenced for are acting against national security and propaganda against the regime." Panahi, 51, has won a slew of foreign awards for his films. But many are banned in Iran where authorities are unhappy with his portrayal of everyday life in the Islamic republic. One of Panahi's latest productions was a documentary entitled "This is not a Film," depicting a day in his life as he waited to hear the appeal verdict. It was screened at the Cannes film festival in May. Panahi's family said the filmmaker was still free pending the imposition of the jail sentence. Panahi's lawyer, Farideh Ghairat, said: "We have no news. The verdict has not been confirmed to us." >>>

15-Oct-2011
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He flourished

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during Khatami's Reformist government

and jailed under Ahmadinejad's.

Their differences are obvious to see. 


shushtari

disgrace to the the human race!!!

by shushtari on

these mullahs sink to new lows every week....pretty soon, I'm sure they'll hang people for eating food during ramadan

 

unfortunately, the people of iran were fooled by a bunch of no good idiots who will not let go of the reigns of power, unless it is taken by them with brute force.... 


Les

AWFULLY FAMILIAR

by Les on

The IRI and former CCCP appear to follow the same playbook.

Filmmaker Jafar Panahi's sentenced imprisonment (6 years) nearly matches that handed down by Soviet authorities 38 years ago against filmmaker Sergei Parajanov (5 years).

//www.parajanov.com


Fred

Travel & work ban

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The travel & work ban which the Islamist Rapists routinely impose on Iranians is yet another tell-tale sign of their unreformable Islamist-apartheid ideology.

The only salvation is in overthrowing Islamist Rapists, “reformers” and all.