Jafar Panahi Facing Five Years Imprisonment in Iran After Being Sentenced in Absentia

News Briefvia The Hollywood ReporterOctober 27, 2026

The Cannes-winning ‘It Was Just an Accident’ director, having returned to Iran after the Oscars, also had a Tehran Revolutionary Court confiscate his assets and impose a travel and social media ban.

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