Iranian Regime Sentences Filmmaker Jafar Panahi to Five Years in Prison, Orders Asset Confiscation
Cannes Palme d’Or-winning Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi – who was facing a one-year prison sentence – has now been sentenced by a Tehran Revolutionary Court to five years and one month in jail in a separate ruling, according to the Emtedad News Agency, an online Iranian reformist media outlet…
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- 2026-10-27 20:50 UTCArab Times · arabtimesonline.com ↗
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