Jafar Panahi, one of Iran’s most influential filmmakers, has started a hunger strike in a Tehran prison to protest his continued detention.
He was accused of spreading anti-government propaganda and inciting protesters during the 2009 post-election unrest.
Panahi wrote on his wife’s social media account about starting a hunger strike in jail.
The Iranian filmmaker was arrested in front of a Tehran prison on July 11, 2022 and told that he will have to serve a six-year prison sentence handed down by a Tehran court in 2011.
Cannes Film Festival award winner Jafar Panahi has directed films like ‘The White Balloon’, ‘The Circle’ and ‘No Bears’.
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