Jafar Panahi was imprisoned by the mullahs’ regime July 11 this year. The filmmaker had come to demonstrate in front of Evin prison, in Tehran, to request the release of two of his colleagues, Mohammad Rasoulof and Mostafa Al-Ahmad, imprisoned three days earlier. They had signed an appeal on social media asking the police to stop threatening civilians with their firearms during the demonstrations.
Jafar Panahi was under the influence of a conviction, sentenced in 2010 to six years in prison and a twenty-year ban on directing and writing films, traveling and speaking to the media, for protesting the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president of the Islamic Republic of Iran . Since then he had been living under a regime of parole. Revoked, therefore, this July 11.