Iran jails director Jafar Panahi and stops him making films for 20 years

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Source: guardian

The acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was sentenced to six years in prison today, and banned from directing and producing films for the next 20 years, his lawyer said.

Panahi, an outspoken supporter of Iran's opposition green movement, was convicted of gathering, colluding and propaganda against the regime, Farideh Gheyrat told the Iranian state news agency ISNA.

"He is therefore sentenced to six years in prison and also he is banned for 20 years from making any films, writing any scripts, traveling abroad and also giving any interviews to the media including foreign and domestic news organizations," she said. Gheyrat said she would appeal against the conviction.

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In an interview in September, Panahi said: "When a film-maker does not make films it is as if he is jailed. Even when he is freed from the small jail, he finds himself wandering in a larger jail," he said.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/20/iran-jails-jafar-panahi-films

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like a murder.
i'd better spare my words here.
i do not have any civil ones on the lips.



they just killed a director. how long before the man dies too?

[FiveGoodMen]

1. Coming soon to a nation near Canada

[Kaleko]

2. Another murder of yet another courageous, giftend soul.

It makes me want to leave this earth sooner rather than later, too.