The award-winning director Jafar Panahi has become the third Iranian film-maker to be arrested in less than a week, the Mehr news agency has said, as he visited prosecutors over the detentions last week of Mohammad Rasoulof and Mostafa Aleahmad.
“Jafar Panahi has been arrested today when he went to the prosecutor’s office to follow up on the situation of another film-maker, Mohammad Rasoulof,” Mehr reported.
The Berlin film festival last week protested against the arrests of Rasoulof and Aleahmad.
In 2011, Rasoulof and Panahi were arrested for filming without a permit.