Mehdi Mahmoudian, the co-writer of Jafar Panahi’s Oscar-nominated political drama “It Was Just An Accident,” was arrested in Tehran on Saturday after endorsing a statement denouncing the actions of Ali Khamenei, the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Two of the other 17 co-singers were also arrested. Panahi, who was recently sentenced in absentia in Iran to one year in prison, was among the signatories. The activists’ statement condemns the Iranian government’s deadly campaign against civilian protestors. It read, in part, “The mass and systematic killing of citizens who bravely took to the streets to bring an end to an illegitimate regime constitutes an organized state crime against
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