Dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been taken into custody amid multiple recent arrests of activist artists and filmmakers in Iran, per the Mehr news agency (via Afp).
Reports say that the Golden Bear-winning “Taxi” and “This Is Not a Film” filmmaker visited the Evin prison, which is located in the capital city of Tehran, on July 11.
Panahi went to the prosecutor’s office to either protest or inquire about the July 8 arrests of fellow Iranian filmmakers Mohammad Rasoulof and Mostafa Al-Ahmad.
Afterward, Panahi was arrested.“Jafar Panahi has been arrested today [Monday] when he went to the prosecutor’s office to follow up on the situation of another film-maker, Mohammad Rasoulof,” Afp said in a report.This is the latest arrest following the detention late last week of “There Is No Evil” director Rasoulof and fellow filmmaker Mostafa Al-Ahmad.
The detentions were in response to a social media statement shared
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