Fatemeh Ghasemi, the only survivor of the Abadan Metropol incident

Filmmakers Mohammad Rasoulof and Mostafa Al-Ahmad were detained on 8 July over an appeal on social media that called on security forces to lay down their weapons and not suppress protests that occurred following the building collapse. Later that month, filmmaker Jafar Panahi was detained and ordered to serve a six-year prison sentence, originally given in 2010, after he inquired prosecutors about Rasoulof’s arrest.

August 13, 2022 | 9:03 pm