US EditionOscar-nominated screenwriter of Iranian drama ‘It Was Just an Accident’ arrested in Tehran
Mahmoudian was detained after signing a statement condemning Iran's violent crackdown that has killed over 6,700 and detained nearly 50,000, human rights groups said.
- Mehdi Mahmoudian, co-writer of It Was Just an Accident, was arrested in Tehran on Saturday after signing a denunciatory statement.
- The arrest followed Mahmoudian's signing of a 17‑person letter condemning Ali Khamenei, leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, accusing him of `mass and systematic killing of citizens` this month.
- Two other signatories, Vida Rabbani and Abdullah Momeni, were also detained, but Iranian arresting authorities have not publicly confirmed the detentions or charges.
- Panahi, who co-wrote the film, called Mahmoudian `a pillar` and voiced worry for his collaborator in a Sunday statement.
- Human-Rights monitors report more than 6,713 killed and 49,500 detained amid the crackdown, which involves high-profile cultural figures linked to Palme d'Or winner It Was Just an Accident and signatories Mohammad Rasoulof and Narges Mohammadi.
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"They arrest people and then create files," explains Jafar Panahi, who "does not know what will happen." His co-writer has already served several years in prison in Iran because of his statements against the regime.
Renowned Iranian screenwriter Mehdi Mahmoudian, who co-wrote the screenplay for this year's Oscar-nominated film "It Was Just an Accident," is among three people detained on suspicion of helping to draft a statement for an arrested opposition figure, AFP reported, according to Iran's Fars news agency.
The human rights activist, who co-wrote "A simple accident", France's representative at the Oscars mid-March, was arrested this weekend, according to Iranian news agency Fars.
In detention since Saturday 31 January in Tehran, Mehdi Mahmoudian collaborated in the screenplay of Jafar Panahi's film Palme d'or in Cannes and named to the future Oscars and Caesar.
Iran stopped last Saturday in Tehran the well-known activist Mehdi Mahmoudian, co-author of the screenplay of the film A Simple Accident. He was arrested after signing a statement that attributed to Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Jameneí, responsibility for the brutal repression of the latest protests against the Islamic Republic, according to Hollywood Reporter, which cites sources from the distributor of the film in the United States. Mahmoudian w…
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