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Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi given new prison sentence and has assets seized

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Charges against him are unclear after return to Iran despite being sentenced last year for ‘propaganda activities’ An Iranian court has handed the award-winning film director Jafar Panahi a new prison sentence of five years and one month and ordered the…

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