"The sentence includes a two-year ban on leaving Iran and prohibition of Panahi from membership of any political or social groups, his lawyer Mostafa Nili said, adding that they would file an appeal. Nili said the charges against the Iranian director were engaging in propaganda activities against the state but did not elaborate. Mr Panahi is outside Iran right now, he added."
"Panahi, 65, won the Cannes film festival's top prize this year for It Was Just an Accident, a film in which five ex-inmates contemplate whether to exact revenge on a man they believe to be their former jailer. Last month, he was on a tour of the US visiting Los Angeles, New York and Telluride, Colorado, to promote his latest Oscar-hopeful movie."
"In 2010, Panahi was banned from making films and from leaving Iran after supporting mass anti-government protests a year earlier and making a series of films that critiqued the state of modern Iran. Convicted of propaganda against the system, he was sentenced to six years in jail but served only two months behind bars before being released on bail. A year after being handed a 20-year ban on film-making, he dispatched a documentary with the title This is Not a Film to the Cannes festival"
Jafar Panahi has been sentenced in absentia to one year in prison and given a two-year ban on leaving Iran. The verdict also prohibits Panahi from membership of any political or social groups. His lawyer Mostafa Nili said they will file an appeal and that the charges are for engaging in propaganda activities against the state. Panahi, 65, won the Cannes Palme d'Or this year for It Was Just an Accident. He recently toured the United States to promote the film, which France has selected as its official Academy Awards nomination and is expected to be shortlisted. Panahi faced prior bans and convictions related to protests and critical films.
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