Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been released on bail after starting a hunger strike to protest against his almost seven-month detention, a rights group and supporters said on Friday.

After spending the last 7 months detained in Tehran’s Evin prison, Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been released on bail. In his latest effort to fight his imprisonment, Panahi initiated a ...

The acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi was released on Friday, two days after starting a hunger strike to denounce his situation and demand his release from prison, where he had been held ...

Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was released from prison in Tehran on Friday. The news follows a whirlwind few days. Panahi had been in prison since July serving a six-year sentence.

Panahi was released on bail on February 3, days after he went on a hunger strike to protest his detention. Jafar Panahi at his home in Tehran after being released on bail in February. Credit Reuters.

(Panahi was released from prison earlier this month ... It’s no less gratifying for being utterly unsurprising that Jafar Panahi has, once again, made a film worthy of his own gently exacting ...

At last month's Berlin Film Festival, the audience applauded the empty seat with Jafar Panahi's name on ... which is why Panahi was released on bail from the country's harshest prison, Evin ...

And those artists always pay a price. The filmmaker Jafar Panahi recently went on a hunger strike until authorities released him from prison on bail, where he was held on charges of, quote ...

The announcement that Panahi was going on a dry hunger strike sparked a wave of concern across the world AFP Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been released on bail after starting a ...

The announcement that Panahi was going on a dry hunger ... AFP Thomas SAMSON Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been released on bail after starting a hunger strike to protest against ...