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Following news that dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi had been given a death sentencefor his involvement in the widespread protests that swept Iran in 2022, Salehi’s lawyer Amir Raisian has confirmed that the sentence has been overturned. "Salehi's death sentence was overturned," Raisian said in a post on X, adding that the supreme court had ordered a retrial. "The Supreme Court prevented an irreparable judicial error," Raisian stated, adding that the court also ruled that Salehi's "previous sentence (six years and three months) was also without compliance with the rules of a multiplicity of crim...
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French hostage Louis Arnaud has returned home after being released from imprisonment in Iran, where he languished in prison for almost two years. The French national arrived back in his home country on Thursday. His family and French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné greeted him at the Paris-Le-Bourget airport. Local media report that the consultant had embarked on a world tour in July 2022 that had taken him as far as Iran when he was arrested in September of that year. He was accused of taking part in demonstrations following the death of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian woman of Kurdish backgr...
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Last year, dissident Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof was unable to accept his Cannes invitation to join the Un Certain Regard Jury because of imposed travel restrictions. This year, he was able to present his new film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, in person. But not without a gripping off-screen story. Two weeks ago, Rasoulof clandestinely fled Iran upon receiving an eight-year prison sentence for standing up to the brutal theocratic regime. His nail-biting escape led him to Germany to finish the edit of the film, and up until a few days ago, no one was sure whether his escape meant that he...
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Days before the premiere of his new film The Seed of the Sacred Fig in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival, acclaimed Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has been sentenced to eight years in prison and flogging in Iran for national security crimes. He’ll also be subjected to a fine and the confiscation of property. In a statement on X, Rasoulof’s lawyer Babak Paknia said the court found Rasoulof’s films and documentaries to be “examples of collusion with the intention of committing a crime against the security of the country.” The filmmaker, 52, has been a target of the authoritarian regime...
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Iranian authorities have interrogated the producers of Mohammad Rasoulof's new film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, following its selection in Competition for this year’s Cannes Film Festival. They were interrogated and subsequently prohibited from leaving the country. Lawyer Babak Paknia confirmed the news on X, stating that the film crew, after enduring hours of interrogation, were pressured to convince the director to withdraw the film from the Cannes line-up. Paknia added that it was not clear if Rasoulof would be allowed to leave Iran to attend the festival. "1/3 Some of the production agent...
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Dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi has been given a death sentence for his involvement in the widespread protests that swept Iran in 2022. “An order for the execution of Toomaj Salehi has been issued,” Salehi’s lawyer Amir Raesian stated. The rapper has been detained, held in solitary confinement and was allegedly tortured following his arrest. In an unprecedented move, a court in Isfahan reversed the higher Supreme Court’s decision on Saleh’s case last week, upholding the original verdict of “corruption on earth” and issued the maximum punishment of death, according to Iranian pro-reform outlets ...
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