Mehdi Mahmoudian, co-writer of “It Was Simply an Accident,” was launched from Jail Tuesday 17 days after his arrest in Tehran by Iranian authorities.
The Oscar-nominated screenwriter in addition to activists Vida Rabbani and Abdollah Momeni had been arrested after signing “The Assertion of the Seventeen” condemning the actions of Ali Khamenei, the chief of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The three people had been reportedly launched on a bail of 6.5 billion tomans — roughly $10,000 — every, which was a conditional launch by the Revolutionary Court docket negotiated by their authorized counsel.
“Mehdi Mahmoudian, Vida Rabbani, and Abdollah Momeni peacefully exercised their proper to specific their views, however the regime responded by accusing them of ‘insulting the Supreme Chief’ and ‘propaganda towards the Islamic Republic,’” writer-director of “It Was Simply an Accident” Jafar Panahi stated in a press release following their launch. “For years, such fees have been used as instruments to criminalize thought, silence criticism, and instill worry in society. Turning a civil and peaceable act right into a nationwide safety case is a transparent signal of intolerance towards the unbiased voices of residents.”
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