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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10291

12 January 2011
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/iran

11/01/2011 (Agence Europe) - Catherine Ashton has criticised the decision made by an Iranian court at the end of December 2010. This decision sentenced Iranian filmmakers, Jafar Panahi and Mohammed Rasoulof, to 6 years in prison and issued a 20-year ban on making films, giving interviews and travelling abroad. In a declaration made on 11 January, Ashton declared that these sentences are incompatible with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Article 19, to which Iran is a...

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