{
  "id": 16806996,
  "title": "Jafar Panahi Now Faces a Five-Year Prison Term in New Ruling on Top of His Previous One-Year Conviction",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/jafar-panahi-now-faces-a-five-year-prison-term-in-new-ruling-on-top",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-27T21:36:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/global/jafar-panahi-five-year-prison-term-new-ruling-1236932372/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Cannes Palme d’Or-winning Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi – who was facing a one-year prison sentence – has now been sentenced by a Tehran Revolutionary Court to five years and one month in jail in a separate ruling, according to the Emtedad News Agency, an online Iranian reformist media outlet. Panahi’s lawyer Mostafa Nili told Emtedad […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}