Iranian filmmakers Mohamad Rasoulof and Mustafa Al Ahmad arrested for protesting towards the authorities – Muricas News

Iranian filmmakers Mohamad Rasoulof and Mustafa Al Ahmad have been detained by authorities on prices of disturbing state safety after protesting towards the authorities’ response to protests over the Metropol constructing collapse in Could, which left greater than 40 useless. and provoked robust demonstrations within the nation.

The arrests of Rasoulof — winner of the Golden Bear on the Berlin Movie Pageant for the movie towards the dying penalty ‘The Lives of Others’ — and Al Ahmad occurred final Friday evening in Tehran, confirms the semi-official company Iranian Fars information company.

The principle cause is the participation of each artists in a press release known as “Put down your arms” that known as for the Iranian authorities to comprise themselves within the repression of the protests over the collapse of the constructing within the province of Khuzestan (south), who condemned the “incompetence ” from the Iranian officers accountable for their oversight.

Kaveh Farnam and Farzad Pak, two of Rasoulof’s Iranian producers, have condemned the “coordinated and brutal assault beneath false pretexts” that led to the arrest of the filmmakers, who “have been transferred to an unknown location.”