Iranian Justice lifts travel restrictions against Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi

26 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –

Taheré Saeedi, wife of Iranian film director Jafar Panahi, has confirmed that Iran’s judicial authorities have lifted travel restrictions against the filmmaker, who was released from Evin prison on provisional release in early February after serving his full sentence. sentence.

“After 14 years, they have lifted the travel ban on Jafar and we are finally going to travel for a couple of days,” his wife announced the day before in an Instagram post, picked up by the Iranian media on Wednesday.

Panahi, who received the Golden Bear at the Berlinale in 2015 for the film ‘Taxi Tehran’, was arrested in July after going to Evin prison to protest the arrest of his colleagues, filmmakers Mohamad Rasoulof and Mustafa at Ahmad.

Rasoulof –winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for the film against the death penalty ‘The Lives of Others’– and Al Ahmad were arrested for asking the Iranian authorities for restraint when it came to quelling the protests over the collapse of a building in the province of Khuzestan, in the south of the country.

Panahi, director of ‘The White Balloon’ (1995), began a hunger strike after being jailed in Evin just after the authorities decided to reactivate a prison sentence imposed against him in 2010 for participating in anti-government protests the previous year .

Twelve years ago, the Iranian Justice decided to release him provisionally on a bail of about 200,000 dollars (about 196,000 euros), although it prohibited him from continuing to make films, travel abroad or give interviews.