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Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof Temporarily released from prison – The Hollywood Reporter

Dissident director Mohammad Rasoulof, who has There Is No Evil won the 2020 Berlinale Golden Bear for best film, has been temporarily released from prison in Iran for medical reasons.

There Is No Evil producer Farzad Pak has confirmed Rasoulof will be released on Hollywood Reporter.

“Mohammad was released on medical bail [but] There are still other allegations [against him] that the course has yet to make a decision,” Pak said. “Surname [the court] can bring him back [into jail] or leave him in limbo.

Rasoulof was released on Saturday and is currently resting at his home in Tehran. The director’s lawyer, Maryam Kianersi, told the French news agency AFPT that his detention had been suspended for two weeks.

Rasoulof was jailed last July after posting on social media calling on Iranian security forces to stop violent attacks on protesters who were demonstrating in the southwestern city of Abadan. Shortly after his arrest, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who had been detained by Iran’s ethics police for allegedly violating the country’s mandatory head covering law, died in custody, sparking protests nationwide love. The Iranian government has tried to brutally suppress the protests and prevent any criticism of the regime online.

Rasoulof was released after fellow filmmaker and Rasoulof’s close friend Jafar Panahi, who was released from Tehran’s Evin prison on February 3 after announcing that he was going on a hunger strike. Panahi was jailed after going to investigate Rasoulof and imprisoned filmmaker Mostafa Al-Ahmad.

Both Panahi and Rasoulof were sentenced to six years in prison in 2011 and banned from making films for 20 years for alleged “anti-regime” propaganda. Rasoulof’s sentence was later suspended and he was released on bail. But after his 2017 drama festival tour A man of integrityConsidering corruption and injustice in Iran, and winning the Cannes Best Picture award, Rasoulof had his passport confiscated and barred from leaving the country.

He is so hot There Is No Evil secretly and smuggled the film abroad. Rasoulof has been banned by the Iranian authorities from attending Berlin in 2020, so his daughter, Baran Rasoulof, who stars in There Is No Evil, received the Golden Bear on his behalf.




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