Dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi travels abroad after 14-year ban
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TEHRAN: Dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi has left Iran for the first time in 14 years for a go to to France, weeks after being launched from jail, his lawyer said Wednesday.
The 62-year-old Iranian director, whose motion pictures have acquired fairly a couple of worldwide awards, was freed on bail in early February after virtually seven months in detention in Tehran.
“After having fully served his sentence, Panahi was authorised to leave the country and obtained his passport,” his lawyer Saleh Nikbakht instructed AFP.
On Tuesday night time Panahi’s partner, Tahereh Saidi, posted {a photograph} on Instagram of herself and the filmmaker at an airport, with every displaying joyful to go away the nation after a 14-year ban.
The lawyer said Panahi was travelling to France to go to his daughter.
Panahi was banned from making motion pictures and leaving the Islamic republic after supporting mass protests in 2009 and making a set of flicks that critiqued the state of latest Iran.
That did not stop him from working clandestinely inside the nation, and his 2015 film “Taxi” acquired the Golden Bear on the Berlin Film Festival.
Arrested in Tehran in July last 12 months, the director was to serve a six-year jail sentence handed down in 2010 for “propaganda against the system”.
However, Panahi was launched two days after occurring a hunger strike in early February to protest the conditions of his detention.
“As far as I know, there are no more court cases against him,” Nikbakht said.
As properly as scooping the Golden Bear in Berlin, Panahi acquired a Golden Lion on the Venice Film Festival in 2000 for his film “The Circle”. In 2018, he moreover claimed the right screenplay prize at Cannes for “Three Faces”.
Panahi’s latest film, “No Bears”, which like a whole lot of his newest work stars the director himself, was screened on the 2022 Venice Film Festival when the filmmaker was already behind bars. It acquired the Special Jury Prize.
TEHRAN: Dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi has left Iran for the first time in 14 years for a go to to France, weeks after being launched from jail, his lawyer said Wednesday.
The 62-year-old Iranian director, whose motion pictures have acquired fairly a couple of worldwide awards, was freed on bail in early February after virtually seven months in detention in Tehran.
“After having fully served his sentence, Panahi was authorised to leave the country and obtained his passport,” his lawyer Saleh Nikbakht instructed AFP.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
On Tuesday night time Panahi’s partner, Tahereh Saidi, posted {a photograph} on Instagram of herself and the filmmaker at an airport, with every displaying joyful to go away the nation after a 14-year ban.
The lawyer said Panahi was travelling to France to go to his daughter.
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Panahi was banned from making motion pictures and leaving the Islamic republic after supporting mass protests in 2009 and making a set of flicks that critiqued the state of latest Iran.
That did not stop him from working clandestinely inside the nation, and his 2015 film “Taxi” acquired the Golden Bear on the Berlin Film Festival.
Arrested in Tehran in July last 12 months, the director was to serve a six-year jail sentence handed down in 2010 for “propaganda against the system”.
However, Panahi was launched two days after occurring a hunger strike in early February to protest the conditions of his detention.
“As far as I know, there are no more court cases against him,” Nikbakht said.
As properly as scooping the Golden Bear in Berlin, Panahi acquired a Golden Lion on the Venice Film Festival in 2000 for his film “The Circle”. In 2018, he moreover claimed the right screenplay prize at Cannes for “Three Faces”.
Panahi’s latest film, “No Bears”, which like a whole lot of his newest work stars the director himself, was screened on the 2022 Venice Film Festival when the filmmaker was already behind bars. It acquired the Special Jury Prize.
