Dissident filmmaker, Jafar Panahi has reportedly left his home country Iran, after 14 years of being banned from traveling and kept under strict supervision by the Islamic Supreme government of the country. Some sources claim that they were at a French Airport.
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His wife Tahereh Saeedi posted a picture of them at an undisclosed airport with the caption that translates into English;
“After 14 years, Jafar’s ban was canceled and finally we are going to travel together for a few days.”
On 15 October 2011, he was sentenced and banned in a Tehran court, and placed on house arrest. Since then, he was not allowed to move freely.
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.
He 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.
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