{"id":104731,"date":"2022-07-20T06:05:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T11:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=104731"},"modified":"2022-07-20T06:05:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T11:05:15","slug":"award-winning-iranian-director-to-fulfill-six-year-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2022\/07\/20\/award-winning-iranian-director-to-fulfill-six-year-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-Winning Iranian Director to Fulfill Six-Year Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA \u2014 Iran on Tuesday ordered award-winning Iranian film director Jafar Panahi to serve out his six-year term in Tehran’s Evin Prison, enforcing a previously handed-down sentence from 2011.<\/p>\n

The order is the latest move in a protracted government campaign to silence critics amid growing economic turmoil and political pressure.<\/p>\n

Panahi, perhaps Iran’s best-known filmmaker, was arrested July 11 during a visit to the Tehran prosecutor’s office to check after fellow filmmakers Mohamad Rasoulof and Mostafa al-Ahmad, both of whom had been detained just days before.<\/p>\n

He and Rasoulof had been arrested in 2010 after participating in a series of street protests and making films perceived as critical of the Iranian government.<\/p>\n

Panahi was convicted of “producing antigovernment propaganda” and sentenced to six years in prison. He served two months before being granted a conditional release that barred him from leaving the country and making films for 20 years, though he successfully found ways to make underground films that were released to high acclaim.<\/p>\n

Panahi’s films typically consist of portrayals of poverty, sexism, violence and censorship in the Islamic Republic, which has angered Iranian officials.<\/p>\n

He has won multiple festival awards, including the 2015 Berlin Golden Bear for\u00a0“Taxi”<\/em>\u00a0and the Cannes Film Festival’s Camera d’Or prize for his 1995 movie\u00a0“White Balloon.”<\/em>\u00a0His movies have not been shown in Iran.<\/p>\n

The Cannes festival condemned the imprisonment of Iranian filmmakers.<\/p>\n

These arrests come at a time where Iranian rulers have faced heavy criticism over soaring prices, especially for food and housing. Many activists, teachers and retirees have been arrested, according to Iranian media.<\/p>\n

Some information for this report came from Reuters and The Associated Press.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VOA \u2014 Iran on Tuesday ordered award-winning Iranian film director Jafar Panahi to serve out his six-year term in Tehran’s Evin Prison, enforcing a previously handed-down sentence from 2011. The order is the latest move in a protracted government campaign to silence critics amid growing economic turmoil and political pressure. Panahi, perhaps Iran’s best-known filmmaker, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recposts"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104734,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104731\/revisions\/104734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}