“Panahi was temporarily released from Evin prison thanks to the efforts of his family, respected lawyers and film representatives,” the Iran Film House, which groups industry professionals, said in a statement.
On Wednesday of this week, when the hunger strike began, which had repercussions in the international media, Panahi warned in a statement released by his wife that he would continue with this measure “until, perhaps, my lifeless body is released from jail.” .
The 62-year-old director was arrested on July 11 and was due to serve a six-year prison sentence imposed in 2010, when he was found guilty of “propaganda against the system.”
Panahi is one of the most internationally renowned Iranian directors. He won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2000 for “El círculo”, and the Golden Bear at the Berlinale in 2015 for “Taxi Tehran”..
“It’s extraordinary, a relief, a total joy,” the French production company told AFP. Michele Halberstadtwhich distributes his films.
“His next fight is to have his sentence annulled officially recognized. He’s out, he’s free, that’s already something formidable,” he added.
Numerous film and cultural personalities are among the thousands detained in Iran, in the framework of the repression of the protests unleashed after the death in detention of the young Kurdish woman Mahsa Aminiin mid-September.
Source: Ambito
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