Mehdi Mahmoudian, the Oscar-nominated co-writer of Jafar Panahi’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner It Was Just an Accident, has been ...

Mehdi Mahmoudian, who is nominated for an Oscar for his screenplay for Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident, was imprisoned ...

Mahmoudian had reportedly signed a statement criticising Iran ’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and condemning the state’s violent crackdown on protesters. Soon after, he was detained and ...

Mehdi Mahmoudian, Oscar-nominated Iranian writer and activist, was released from Nowshahr prison after 17 days. His arrest followed criticism of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Iran’s crackdown on dissent.