A group of Iranian artists claim the court investigating the murder of Dariush Mehrjui is illegitimate.
A group of artists inside and outside Iran, in a collective letter, described the court investigating the murder of Dariush Mehrjui and Vahideh Mohammadi Far as a show and a continuation of governmental repression of dissidents.
The letter states that they do not recognize any legitimacy for the court investigating the murder of Dariush Mehrjui and Vahideh Mohammadi Far, which concluded its work hastily based on incomplete investigations and a flawed indictment.
The news of the murder of Dariush Mehrjui, a prominent Iranian filmmaker, and his wife Vahideh Mohammadi Far, a screenwriter, was released on the morning of Sunday, October 15, shocking the Iranian community, especially those in the cultural and artistic fields.
In closing this open letter, the signatories also called on civil society to persist in seeking justice, writing that, in their view, in such a predicament, protest, exposure, and relentless insistence on justice, away from the death penalty and outside the cycle of violence, is an ethical, individual, and social responsibility that requires each of us to bear the burden.