By AFP
TEHRAN: Award-winning dissident Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi, arrested final week in Tehran, should serve a six-year sentence beforehand handed to him in 2010, the judicial authority introduced Tuesday.
Panahi, 62, has received numerous awards at worldwide festivals for movies which have critiqued fashionable Iran, together with the highest prize in Berlin for “Taxi” in 2015, and finest screenplay at Cannes for his movie “Three Faces” in 2018.
He is the third director to be detained this month, alongside Mostafa Aleahmad and Mohammad Rasoulof, who received the Golden Bear in Berlin in 2020 along with his movie “There Is No Evil”.
“Panahi had been sentenced in 2010 to a total of six years in prison… and therefore he was entered into Evin detention centre to serve his sentence there”, judiciary spokesman Massoud Setayeshi informed reporters.
He was arrested in 2010, following his help for anti-government demonstrations.
He was convicted of “propaganda against the system”, sentenced to 6 years in jail, banned from directing or writing movies and blocked from leaving the nation.
But he served solely two months in jail in 2010, and was subsequently residing on conditional launch that might be revoked at any time.
Panahi was arrested once more on July 11 after he went to the prosecutor’s workplace to observe up on the state of affairs of Rasoulof.
The arrests come after Panahi and Rasoulof denounced in May the arrests of a number of colleagues of their homeland in an open letter.
Series of arrests
Despite the political pressures, Iran has a thriving movie trade and the nation’s merchandise commonly win awards at main worldwide festivals.
Panahi’s detention has sparked condemnation from fellow filmmakers.
Cannes movie competition organisers mentioned they “strongly condemn” the arrests in addition to “the wave of repression evidently under way in Iran against its artists”.
The Venice movie competition referred to as for the “immediate release” of the administrators, whereas the Berlin movie competition mentioned it was “dismayed and outraged” on the arrest.
France’s overseas ministry on Friday expressed concern on the “arbitrary” arrests of the filmmakers, citing a “worrying deterioration in the situation of artists in Iran”.
Iran has in current weeks arrested a number of main figures, together with reformist politician Mostafa Tajzadeh who was detained on July 8.
Tajzadeh “is currently in pre-trial detention in Evin” jail and “his accusation is gathering and collusion with the intention of acting against the country’s security and propaganda against the system,” Setayeshi mentioned on Tuesday.
The politician, who final yr made an unsuccessful bid for the presidency, was arrested in 2009 throughout protests disputing the re-election of former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Tajzadeh, who had lengthy campaigned for democratic and “structural changes” within the Islamic republic was convicted in 2010 on expenses of harming nationwide safety and propaganda towards the state earlier than being launched in 2016 after serving his sentence.
He had served as deputy inside minister in the course of the 1997-2005 tenure of reformist former president Mohammad Khatami.
TEHRAN: Award-winning dissident Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi, arrested final week in Tehran, should serve a six-year sentence beforehand handed to him in 2010, the judicial authority introduced Tuesday.
Panahi, 62, has received numerous awards at worldwide festivals for movies which have critiqued fashionable Iran, together with the highest prize in Berlin for “Taxi” in 2015, and finest screenplay at Cannes for his movie “Three Faces” in 2018.
He is the third director to be detained this month, alongside Mostafa Aleahmad and Mohammad Rasoulof, who received the Golden Bear in Berlin in 2020 along with his movie “There Is No Evil”.
“Panahi had been sentenced in 2010 to a total of six years in prison… and therefore he was entered into Evin detention centre to serve his sentence there”, judiciary spokesman Massoud Setayeshi informed reporters.
He was arrested in 2010, following his help for anti-government demonstrations.
He was convicted of “propaganda against the system”, sentenced to 6 years in jail, banned from directing or writing movies and blocked from leaving the nation.
But he served solely two months in jail in 2010, and was subsequently residing on conditional launch that might be revoked at any time.
Panahi was arrested once more on July 11 after he went to the prosecutor’s workplace to observe up on the state of affairs of Rasoulof.
The arrests come after Panahi and Rasoulof denounced in May the arrests of a number of colleagues of their homeland in an open letter.
Series of arrests
Despite the political pressures, Iran has a thriving movie trade and the nation’s merchandise commonly win awards at main worldwide festivals.
Panahi’s detention has sparked condemnation from fellow filmmakers.
Cannes movie competition organisers mentioned they “strongly condemn” the arrests in addition to “the wave of repression evidently under way in Iran against its artists”.
The Venice movie competition referred to as for the “immediate release” of the administrators, whereas the Berlin movie competition mentioned it was “dismayed and outraged” on the arrest.
France’s overseas ministry on Friday expressed concern on the “arbitrary” arrests of the filmmakers, citing a “worrying deterioration in the situation of artists in Iran”.
Iran has in current weeks arrested a number of main figures, together with reformist politician Mostafa Tajzadeh who was detained on July 8.
Tajzadeh “is currently in pre-trial detention in Evin” jail and “his accusation is gathering and collusion with the intention of acting against the country’s security and propaganda against the system,” Setayeshi mentioned on Tuesday.
The politician, who final yr made an unsuccessful bid for the presidency, was arrested in 2009 throughout protests disputing the re-election of former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Tajzadeh, who had lengthy campaigned for democratic and “structural changes” within the Islamic republic was convicted in 2010 on expenses of harming nationwide safety and propaganda towards the state earlier than being launched in 2016 after serving his sentence.
He had served as deputy inside minister in the course of the 1997-2005 tenure of reformist former president Mohammad Khatami.
