Iranian film director, Jafar Panahi was arrested on March 1, 2010, along with his wife and daughter, but the women were released after a few days. He remained in section 209 inside Evin Prison until May 25, 2010, when he was released on $200,000 bail while awaiting trial.
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He was arrested because “he tried to make a documentary about the unrest that followed the disputed 2009 reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.”
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Panahi was convicted of “assembly and colluding with the intention to commit crimes against the country’s national security and propaganda against the Islamic Republic,” on December 20, 2010.
He was sentenced and banned in a Tehran court in October 2011, and placed on house arrest. Since then, he was not allowed to move freely and walk around until he was reportedly freed on April 25, 2023.
While being banned from making films, Panahi still managed to produce a few popular movies in the past decade. Some of these movies include; This Is Not A Film, No Bears, Closed Curtain, Taxi, Three Faces, and more.
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