Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi faces one-year prison term after court ruling

Los Angeles [US], June 8(ANI): Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi's one-year prison sentence has been upheld by a court in Iran following a retrial linked to charges of 'propaganda activity against the regime. ' According to Deadline, Tehran Revolutionary Court Judge Iman Afshari rejected objections raised by Panahi's legal team and upheld the earlier verdict that had been issued in his absence.