Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been sentenced to 1 12 months in jail and a two-year journey ban in absentia, his lawyer Mustafa Nili introduced on X on Monday.
The lawyer stated that Department 26 of the Tehran Islamic Revolutionary Court docket had additionally banned the director from membership of political and social teams resulting from “propaganda actions in opposition to the system.”
Panahi is presently on the awards season path together with his Cannes Palme d’Or-winning drama It Was Simply An Accident, which is France’s entry to the 2026 Oscars, and isn’t believed to be in Iran right now.
At present a resident of France, below its expertise visa scheme, Panahi has been on the highway ever since his movie was chosen as France’s Oscar entry in September and is because of contact down on the Marrakech Movie Competition to take part in a dialog occasion on December 4.
Deadline has contacted the producer and mk2 movies the gross sales agent for It’s Was Simply An Accident, to substantiate Panahi shouldn’t be in Iran and is ready to listen to again.
Panahi has lengthy been within the crosshairs of Iran’s hardline Islamic Republic authorities.
Most just lately, he spent seven months within the nation’s infamous Evin jail after being arrested in July 2023 when he went to the jail to investigate in regards to the the whereabouts of fellow filmmakers Mohammad Rasoulof and Mostafa Al-Ahmad who had been arrested a number of days beforehand.
It was introduced a number of days later that the Iranian authorities had determined to reactivate a six-year sentence initially meted out to Panahi in 2010 alongside a 20-year filmmaking and journey ban.
The fees and sentence had been linked to his attendance of a funeral in 2009 of a pupil shot useless within the Inexperienced Revolution and his later try to shoot a characteristic set in opposition to the backdrop of the rebellion.
Panahi was launched from his newest stint in jail in February 2023 after happening starvation strike.
The director made his first journey to the Cannes Movie Competition in 15 years in Could of this 12 months, to accompany his clandestinely shot movie It Was Simply An Accident, which went on to win the Palme d’Or.
