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Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi sentenced to prison

· By Scott Roxborough
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This is not the first conviction for Jafar Panahi. For decades, the filmmaker has experienced censorship and imprisonment in his home country of Iran. He never set out to be a political filmmaker.

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