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 ...

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

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.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi was released on bail Friday, two days after going on hunger strike to protest his imprisonment last summer, his ...

Panah, son of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, is in the city to attend the ongoing Bangalore International Film Festival.

(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 ...

DUBAI, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Iranian film director Jafar Panahi has started a hunger strike in prison to protest against authorities' refusal to release him temporarily on bail pending retrial ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...