Oscar nomination Mehdi Mahmoudian, screenwriter de A simple accidenthe sido detained in Tehran in a few weeks the Academy ceremony will be celebrated.
Mahmoudian chose the role of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s drama I wanted Palme de Oro at the last Cannes Film Festival and which appeared at the Hollywood Awards Gala in the categories of best international film, representing France and I hope.
The writer, as informed by Panahi’s film team, he was arrested on saturdayuntil at this time they exceeded the details of the costs attributed to them.
The detention came days after Mahmoudian and 16 other people signed a statementsent by the leader of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the regime’s violent repression of protesters.
Other authors of the text, Vida Rabbani and Abdullah Momeni, were also detained.
Panahi, for his part, issued a press release this Sunday reports the apprehension of his prisoner.
“Mehdi Mahmoudian is not alone. human rights activist and man of conscience; it is a testimony, an eye and a rare moral presence, a presence whose absence is therefore immediate, both inside and outside the prison walls,” affirmed Panahi.
“The massive and systematic slaughter of citizens who bravely climbed these streets to reach illegitimate regime constitutes a crime of a state organized against humanity”, can be read in the press release of January 28, which could be the beginning of Mahmoudian’s detention, also signed by Panahi.
As soon as he passed, Panahi was again sentenced to one year in prison and banned from leaving Iran for two yearswho was found guilty of “propaganda against the system”. Following the verdict, the director – who traveled abroad to accompany the film – assured that he would return to Iran.
“While we are here, the Iranian state is shooting at protesters and the carnage continues unabated in the streets of Iran,” he said last month at the National Board of Review Awards gala in New York. “Now the real scene is not in the windows, but in the streets of Iran. The Islamic Republic has caused a bloodbath to restart its collapse.”
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