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Pusan Int'l Film Fest 'Absolutely Outraged' Over Iran's Sentencing of Director Jafar Panahi

9:33 AM PST 12/24/2010 by Park Soo-mee

Event organizers issued a statement Friday heavily criticizing the filmmaker's six-year prison sentence and 20-year ban on making movies.

SEOUL -- Pusan International Film Festival issued a statement heavily criticizing the Iranian government's sentencing of the director Jafar Panahi and his fellow filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof Friday.

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