Dissident Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof was released from prison over the weekend, according to Iranian news outlets. Rasoulof, who won the Berlinale Golden Bear in 2020 for There Is No Evil, was arrested last July with fellow filmmaker Mostafa Al-Ahmad.
He was detained after signing a petition titled ‘Lay Down Your Arms” calling on security forces to exercise restraint in relation to popular protests over a deadly building collapse.
Rasoulof has been in and out of Evin since the beginning of 2023. His lawyer Maryam Kianersi, who had already announced a two-week suspension of his sentence on January 11 for health reasons, told French news agency AFP on Saturday her client had been released again.
There was no indication of how long Rasoulof would remain out of jail this time. There is no news on Al-Ahmad who was arrested at the same time as Rasoulof.
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