# Jafar Panahi faces fresh five-year prison sentence in Iran

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/jafar-panahi-faces-fresh-five-year-prison-sentence-in-iran/
- Published: 2026-10-28T09:33:04+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-28T10:27:03+00:00
- Original publisher: Far Out
- Original article: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/jafar-panahi-faces-fresh-five-year-prison-sentence-in-iran/
- Topics: Middle East, World

## Key points

- Panahi receives a five-year, one-month sentence in absentia.
- Iran also ordered asset confiscation and a two-year travel and social media ban.
- His lawyer says Panahi has been in Iran since 30 March.

## Summary

Iran has sentenced filmmaker Jafar Panahi to five years and one month in prison in absentia, in a new case brought by Tehran’s Revolutionary Court. The sentence also orders the confiscation of his assets and imposes a two-year ban on travel and social media, adding to the legal pressure on a prominent critic of the Iranian authorities.

Panahi’s lawyer, Mostafa Nili, said the director learnt a hearing was under way after his bank account was frozen, and that they discovered the sentence when they visited the prosecutor’s office. Nili says Panahi has been in Iran since 30 March, after attending the Academy Awards in the United States. A separate one-year prison sentence was upheld in June 2026; Panahi was also jailed in 2022 after enquiring about the arrest of fellow director Mohammad Rasoulof.

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