Teachers’ statement protesting the verdict against Mohammad Rasoulof, this verdict is medieval and should be revoked.
A group of teachers, in statements protesting the verdict issued for Mohammad Rasoulof, a well-known Iranian filmmaker, have called it oppressive and medieval, demanding its cancellation.
In this statement signed by nearly 200 teachers, it is mentioned that Mr. Rasoulof is the son of a couple of teachers who started their teaching career by educating reading and writing in Shiraz prisons.
Versions of this statement have been published on the country’s teachers’ guild channel on Telegram, stating that Mr. Rasoulof has been sentenced for standing in the right place of history and his steadfastness in supporting the women’s movement and life freedom. When they summoned, arrested, and imprisoned us, he could have chosen to remain silent like some other filmmakers and be gray and take his share of the government’s cinema rent.
Protesting teachers in this statement have said that with unjust and invalid verdicts, you are hanging chains of tyranny around the neck of art and slaughtering cinema.
A few days ago, Babak Paknia, the lawyer of Mohammad Rasoulof, the filmmaker, announced that his client has been sentenced to eight years in prison, five years of which are executable, along with a fine, flogging, and confiscation of property.
