Iran has sentenced acclaimed filmmaker Jafar Panahi to a year in prison, after accusing him of spreading propaganda against the Tehran regime.
The director, who was sentenced in his absence, also received a two-year ban from leaving Iran, his lawyer Mostafa Nili said. But the news came as Panahi was in New York to receive three Gotham Awards for his film It Was Just An Accident, which also won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
The film depicts
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