Tehran: Famous Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who has been in jail for six months, has started a hunger strike in jail.
According to the media report, Tahre Saidi, the wife of the filmmaker, informed people about this news on Instagram.
62-year-old Jafar Panahi has released a statement from prison, according to which the arrest is a kidnapping rather than a judicial sentence.
The award-winning filmmaker announced that he would neither eat nor take medicine until he was released.
Jafar Panahi was sentenced to six years in prison for attending the funeral of a student of the Green Revolution, and was also banned from making films and traveling for twenty years.
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