He never wanted to be an activist – the system forced him into it
Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi is one of the winners of the 2014 Prize for Freedom and Future of the Media, awarded by the Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig. Panahi is not allowed to give interviews, make films, write screenplays or leave the country since he was sentenced to six years imprisonment for propaganda against the government.
So Jafar Panahi’s representative in Germany Nooshafarin Doostri-Lübbe answers ECPMF’s questions.
Jafar Panahi has to live under restrictions imposed after his court case. What are those restrictions?
The sentence: six years imprisonment (still continues), six years forbidden to make films, six years forbidden to write…
