A U.S. journalist in Iran was sentenced to eight years in prison for espionage, her father, lawyer and news reports said Saturday -- a sentence that prompted denunciation from the United States.
Read: Silenced at home, Iranian filmmaker finds eager audience in France] When we met up in New York, Panahi told me that the ...
Panahi’s masterwork of a revenge thriller exactingly traces how evil, once inflicted, metastasizes within our souls and ...
Authorities could again arrest him for speaking out against the country’s hard-line regime. They could send him back to the ...
Three women died in Qarchak prison, a Tehran women’s prison notorious for abysmal conditions, between September 16 and ...
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, long known for his defiance of state censorship, has made a triumphant return to cinema with 'It Was Just An Accident', his first feature since being released from ...
“It Was Just an Accident” is Panahi’s tribute to those people whose lived experience is reflected in the collection of ...
NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi about his new movie, "It Was Just An Accident." Panahi made the film right after being released from Iranian prison.
Once again, Iran's death machine is operating at full throttle, and once again, the West looks away. Is no one paying ...
The Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been imprisoned, banned from traveling, put under house arrest and ordered to stop ...
France condemned on Thursday the lengthy prison sentences given to two of its citizens for espionage, saying the charges were ...