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Cannes 2025 Palme d’Or victor and Oscar-nominee Jafar Panahi has been been summoned for a tribunal proceeding successful Iran connected May 20 arsenic portion of a retrial related to charges against him of “propaganda activity against nan regime”, according to section media reports.
The proceeding will return spot adjacent to a twelvemonth aft Panahi was feted pinch nan Cannes Palme d’Or for his movie It Was Just An Accident by a assemblage presided complete by Juliette Binoche.
Panahi was sentenced to 1 twelvemonth successful situation and a two-year recreation prohibition successful absentia astatine nan extremity of past twelvemonth while connected nan awards way pinch nan film.
Branch 26 of nan Tehran Islamic Revolutionary Court, which is overseeing nan case, besides banned nan head from rank of governmental and societal groups.
He returned to Iran astatine nan extremity of March soon aft nan ceremonial for nan 98th Academy Awards successful which It Was Just An Accident made it to nan information shape successful nan Best International Feature Film Category.
The retrial has been called pursuing an entreaty by Panahi’s lawyers.
Panahi has agelong been successful nan crosshairs of Iran’s hardline Islamic Republic authorities.
Most recently, he spent 7 months successful nan country’s Evin jailhouse aft being arrested successful July 2023 erstwhile he went to nan situation to enquire astir nan the whereabouts of chap filmmakers Mohammad Rasoulof and Mostafa Al-Ahmad who had been arrested a fewer days previously.
It was announced a fewer days later that nan Iranian authorities had decided to reactivate a six-year condemnation primitively meted retired to Panahi successful 2010 alongside a 20-year filmmaking and recreation ban.
The charges and condemnation were connected to his attendance of a ceremonial successful 2009 of a student changeable dormant successful nan Green Revolution and his later effort to sprout a characteristic group against nan backdrop of nan uprising. Panahi was released from his latest stint successful jailhouse successful February 2023 aft going connected hunger strike.
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