Iranian Filmmaker Jafar Panahi Receives Additional Five-Year Prison Sentence

• Jafar Panahi, an Iranian filmmaker, has been sentenced to five years and one month in prison by a Tehran Revolutionary Court.
• This sentence is in addition to a previous one-year conviction.
• Panahi, who won the Cannes Palme d'Or, had returned to Iran after spending time abroad for awards and film festivals.
• His assets have been confiscated, and he faces a travel and social media ban.
• Panahi's lawyer, Mostafa Nili, reported the new ruling through the Emtedad News Agency, an Iranian reformist media outlet.