More than seven months after acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his latest film, It Was Just an Accident , and one day after Panahi’s U.S. tour to support the film wrapped, the Iranian government has sentenced him to prison again. According to a December 1 social-media post from Panahi’s lawyer, Mostafa Nili, the Islamic Revolutionary Court has sentenced Panahi to one year in prison, as well as issuing a two-year ban on leaving the country and barring Panahi from joining any “political and social groups or factions for propaganda activities against the regime.” Panahi plans to appeal, Nili said.

For nearly his entire professional career, Panahi has been facing off against the Iranian government and criticizing it through the

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