Iran releases filmmaker Jafar Panahi on bail after nearly seven months in jail

• Iran arrests famed director Jafar Panahi and two other filmmakers

The acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi

two days after starting a hunger strike to denounce his situation and demand precisely his release from prison, where he had been

.

The director's son, Panah Panahi, has shared on Instagram an image of his father already released.

He has also confirmed the

, with another photograph of the director and a demand that all filmmakers detained "arbitrarily" be released.

Panahi announced on Wednesday that he would stop eating, drinking and taking medication until he was released, a move in protest of

of Iran's security and judicial apparatus, according to a statement published by his wife, Tahereh Saeedi, in your Instagram profile.

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Panahi, who received the

, went to Evin prison on July 11 to protest the arrest of his fellow filmmakers,

.

Rasoulof --winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for the film against the death penalty 'The Lives of Others'-- and Al Ahmad

the Iranian authorities for restraint when it came to quelling the protests over the collapse of a building in the province of Khuzestan, in the south of the country.

Panahi, director of 'The White Balloon' (1995), was in Evin jail after the prison sentence imposed in 2010 for participating in anti-government protests the previous year was reactivated.

Twelve years ago, the

provisionally on a bail of about 200,000 dollars (about 196,000 euros), although it prohibited him from

or give interviews.

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