Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was released on bail on Friday (February 3rd) after going on a hunger strike to protest his nearly seven-month detention, his supporters said.
The director had been arrested several months before the protests against the regime began, but his imprisonment has become a symbol of the plight of artists who are speaking out against the authorities.
Jafar Panahi was released from Evin prison in Tehran "two days after starting his hunger strike for freedom", the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said on Twitter. based in the United States, while the Iranian reformist newspaper Shargh published an image of the filmmaker happily kissing a supporter.
His wife Tahereh Saeedi posted on Instagram a photo of Jafar Panahi leaving prison in a vehicle.
The award-winning director, arrested in July, went on a hunger strike on Wednesday to protest his continued detention.
With AFP
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