Iran: Actress sentenced to year in prison for censorship film

10 Oct 2011

On 8 October, Actress Marzieh Vafamehr was sentenced to 90 lashes and a year in jail for her performance in a film exploring censorship of artists in Iran, according to reports from Kalameh.com, an Iranian opposition website. Vafamehr was in a controversial film called “My Tehran for Sale”, which is about a young actress who takes on a secret life in order to pursue her artistic dreams, after having her theatre work banned by Tehran authorities. Vafamehr, who was initially arrested after the July release of the film, was released on bail later that month. Her lawyer reportedly filed to appeal on 9 October.

Talk about this story

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Digg
  • LinkedIn
  • Blogger
  • StumbleUpon
  • Email
  • RSS

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

«  •  »

  1. The Libertarian: Tehran's fascist cultural policies

    October 10, 2011 at 22:08

    [...] actress to be lashed 90 times «  New Media Blog Old Testament-world | Civil Commotion Index on Censorship  » Blog Archive   » Iran: Actress sentenced.. Scallywag & Vagabond  » Savage Predator    » Iranian actres.. [...]

  2. Karl

    October 11, 2011 at 13:31

    Islam is a FASCIST POLITICAL system with a little bit man-made religion thrown in for the “look”.

    Seldom is it more obvious in this outrage of torturing and shackle down a young woman who broke no rules and had the required permits to film this story in Iran. God made no man – crazy blasphemous man made gods in their own satanic image – more or less.

2 Responses to “Iran: Actress sentenced to year in prison for censorship film”