The arrest of award-winning director Jafar Panahi and wider pressure on filmmakers follows a wave of recent arrests as tensions escalate between Iran’s hard-line government and the West.
Iranian film director Jafar Panahi attends the 56th Berlin Film Festival, February 17, 2006. AP/Jan Bauer
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