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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10477
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (ae) eu/iran

EU calls for end to persecution of artists

Brussels, 19/10/2011 (Agence Europe) - EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton called on Iran, on Tuesday 18 October, to review the sentences imposed on filmmaker Jafar Panahi, whose six-year term of imprisonment has just been upheld by the court of appeal, and actress Marzieh Vafamehr, condemned to one year in prison and 90 lashes, following her part in a film referring to the difficult conditions in which artists operate in Iran. Ashton says she is “disturbed” by...

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