Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof said on Monday he had left Iran clandestinely after being sentenced to jail and flogging on national security charges, a day ahead of the opening of the ...
Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has left Iran and traveled to Europe clandestinely after being sentenced to eight years in prison by the country’s authorities, who pressured him to pull his ...
Dissident Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has left Iran and is currently staying in what he described as an “undisclosed location in Europe” in a statement shared with the international ...
Rasoulof, recently sentenced to eight years in Iranian prison, has a film in the Cannes competition this year with "The Seed of the Sacred Fig." In a press statement issued from an undisclosed ...
Director had been sentenced for ‘collusion with the intention of committing a crime against the country’s security’ The Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof has secretly fled Iran after ...
Paris – Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof said Monday he had left Iran after being sentenced to jail on national security charges, a day ahead of the opening of the Cannes Film Festival ...
Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof has been sentenced to eight years in prison, according to his lawyer. In a post on X, the filmmaker’s lawyer Babak Paknia wrote that Iran‘s Islamic ...
"I can confirm that Mohammad Rasoulof has left Iran and will attend the Cannes festival," Paknia told AFP on Monday. Rasoulof, 51, was not believed to have been in jail.
After being sentenced to eight years in prison, the award-winning Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof says he's fled to Europe shortly ahead of the Cannes Film Festival premiere of his latest film.
CANNES (Reuters) - Mohammad Rasoulof, a celebrated Iranian director whose latest film is competing in the Cannes Film Festival, has fled Iran after being sentenced to eight years in prison and ...
The award-winning Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has been sentenced to eight years in prison and lashings just ahead of his planned trip to the Cannes Film Festival, his lawyer told news agency ...