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Tag : mohammad rasoulof

July 11, 2022

Heightened Reign of Terror in Iran Under New Intelligence Chief

Less than a month after the intelligence chief of the Iranian military’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was replaced, a crackdown on dissent is being ramped up in the country ...

March 12, 2020

“They Want to Create Fear” More Artists Summoned to Prison Amid Iran’s Rising COVID-19 Death Toll

In addition to renowned filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, three members of the Iranian Writers Association (IWA)—Baktash Abtin, Reza Khandan Mahabadi and Keyvan Bajan—have been summoned to prison as other inmates are being reportedly released to ...

March 4, 2020

Amid Coronavirus Outbreak, Renowned Filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof Summoned to Prison

Rasoulof’s Film About Iran’s Death Penalty Recently Won Top Prize at Berlin Film Festival March 4, 2020 – The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) strongly condemns the Iranian judiciary’s decision to put internationally acclaimed filmmaker ...

September 24, 2019

Filmmaker’s Family Blocked From Boarding Flight in Tehran: “Iran is Sick and Making Everyone Sick”

Filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi poses for a photo beside his mother Iran Hamzehie. Several members of internationally acclaimed filmmaker Bahman ...

July 26, 2019

Cannes Film Festival, Iranian Filmmakers Condemn Sentence Against Colleague Mohammad Rasoulof

Acclaimed director Mohammad Rasoulof was sentenced to one year in prison in Tehran in July 2019. He has been banned from making films or leaving Iran since 2017. International film festivals ...

July 24, 2019

Mohammad Rasoulof’s Films Were Banned in Iran, Now He’s Been Sentenced to Prison

“We have to pay a price, and every person will pay some price,” says acclaimed filmmaker July 24, 2019 – The sentencing of award-winning filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof to one year in prison for the content of his films has highlighted ...

December 26, 2017

Iranian Authorities Confiscate Prominent Director’s Passport, Ban Him From Making Films

Award-winning director Mohammad Rasoulof has revealed that he has been banned from making films in Iran and is not allowed to leave the country. “As soon as I arrived at ...

January 11, 2012

Iranian Judiciary Should Dismiss Ministry Order Against House of Cinema

(11 January 2012) The Iranian Judiciary should withdraw the Ministry of Culture order to shut down House of Cinema, the country’s leading independent film association, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. Authorities should end the unlawful attacks on independent civil society ...

October 27, 2011

Appeals Court Upholds Verdicts of Panahi, Malekpour, Tajik

The death sentence of Saeed Malekpour, a Sharif Industrial University graduate who was arrested in 2008 by IRGC’s Cyber Army on the charge of “managing pornographic websites,” was upheld for the second time last week. According to BBC Persian, though Malekpour’s death sentence was overturned ...

October 18, 2011

Iranian Filmmakers Call for International Boycott of State-Run Film and TV Organizations

A month after the arrest of five independent Iranian filmmakers on charges of working for BBC Persian, 21 Iranian filmmakers and actors living outside of the country signed a statement asking the international ...

July 26, 2011

Arrests of Women in Iran’s Film Industry Escalate

The pressure, threats, and arrests of members of Iran’s film industry that began immediately following the 2009 presidential election has been focused on Iranian women in cinema over the past several weeks. Several sources in Iran told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran ...

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