HeadphonesListen to articleIranian filmmakerJafar Panahi won the Palme d'Or in 2025 for his film It Was Just an Accident. A court in Tehran sentenced him to a year behind bars. AFPIranian filmmakerJafar Panahi won the Palme d'Or in 2025 for his film It Was Just an Accident. A court in Tehran sentenced him to a year behind bars. AFPCannes-winning filmmaker behind It Was Just an Accident has been ordered to serve one year in prisonHeadphonesBookmark
Iran upheld a one-year prison sentence against Oscar-nominated director Jafar Panahi for “propaganda against the Islamic Republic.”
Branch 26 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court rejected an appeal, imposing a two-year travel ban and prohibiting organisational memberships.
Lawyer Mostafa Nili says prosecutors cited an unauthorised film, support for political prisoners, protests, and the Women, Life, Freedom movement.
The ruling can be appealed to Tehran’s Provincial Court of Appeal within 20 days, extending a decades-long pattern of restrictions on the filmmaker.
