The Legal News Agency, on Saturday, October 31, in reporting on the case of Jaffer Panhi, the director of the film and winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, announced that Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran sentenced Panhi to five years and one month in prison and the confiscation of all his media and national security assets on the charge of media and national security activities. According to Mizen, Panhi's case was transferred to the Culture and Media Prosecutor's Office and after issuing a summons, he was sent to court. The High Court claims that even though he was summoned, he did not show up for the investigation and the court sessions. Earlier, on October 27, 1405, Mustafa Nili, Jafar Panhi's lawyer, announced that this judgment had been rendered in absentia and said that the date of the hearing had not been given to his client. According to the lawyer, in addition to imprisonment and the confiscation of all movable and immovable property, this filmmaker was also considered to be banned from leaving the country for two years and banned from social networks for two years.