“Under the initial verdict, Panahi had been sentenced to one year in prison on the charge of engaging in propaganda against the Islamic Republic of Iran," Mostafa Nili, the lawyer of the acclaimed and Cannes Palme d’Or winner Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, said in an interview with the Iranian media outlet 'Emtedad'.
Nili added that he was also handed a two-year travel ban and prohibited from joining political and social groups and associations. With this, the Branch 26 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Iman Afshari, has upheld the original verdict in full.
