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.In this May 2013 file photo, Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof poses during a photo call for the film The Immigrant at Cannes. Rasoulof says he has fled to Europe after being sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran.
Iranian authorities haven't yet acknowledged Rasoulof's sentence and there was no immediate comment on his departure. Rasoulof and other artists had co-signed a letter urging authorities to put down their weapons amid demonstrations over a 2022 building collapse that killed at least 29 people in the southwestern city of Abadan.
'No Bears' is one of year's most acclaimed films. Its director is behind bars for defying Iran's regime"The scope and intensity of repression has reached a point of brutality where people expect news of another heinous government crime every day," said Rasoulof. "The criminal machine of the Islamic Republic is continuously and systematically violating human rights.
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