{"id":324669,"date":"2025-12-01T20:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/324669\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T20:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:06:07","slug":"jafar-panahi-sentenced-to-a-year-in-prison-in-iran-in-absentia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/324669\/","title":{"rendered":"Jafar Panahi Sentenced to a Year in Prison in Iran in Absentia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPalme d\u2019Or-winning filmmaker Jafar Panahi<\/a> has been sentenced in absentia in Iran to one year in prison and a travel ban, according to his lawyer via the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n

\n\tPanahi\u2019s lawyer, Mostafa Nili, said the sentence includes a two-year travel ban and prohibition of Panahi from membership of any political or social groups. He added that they would file an appeal.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe charges against the filmmaker were that he had engaged in \u201cpropaganda activities\u201d against the state, but Nili did not elaborate. <\/p>\n

\n\tPanahi was recently in the U.S. to promote his Cannes-winning film \u201cIt Was Just an Accident,\u201d and is due to attend the Marrakech Film Festival on Thursday, where the film screens. He is a resident of France. The film was selected by France as its submission for the Academy Awards in the international feature film category, and is expected to make the shortlist.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn \u201cIt Was Just an Accident\u201d five former inmates contemplate whether to exact revenge on a man they believe to be their former jailer.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe director has had frequent run-ins with the Iranian authorities. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2010, he was barred from making films and from leaving Iran after supporting anti-government protests and making films critical of the country.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe was later convicted of \u201cpropaganda against the system,\u201d and sentenced to six years in jail but served only two months before being released on bail.<\/p>\n

\n\tDespite the ban on filmmaking, he shot the documentary \u201cThis Is Not a Film,\u201d which was released in 2011, and \u201cTaxi,\u201d in which Panahi acted as a taxi driver, came out in 2015.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2022, he was arrested in connection with protests by a group of filmmakers but was released about seven months later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Palme d\u2019Or-winning filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been sentenced in absentia in Iran to one year in prison and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[32176,88,165659],"class_list":["post-324669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cannes-film-festival","tag-entertainment","tag-jafar-panahi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}