Jaafar Panahi was sentenced to five years and one month in prison and confiscation of property Mustafa Neely, Jaafar Panahi's lawyer, announced that branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran sentenced his client to five years and one month in prison and the confiscation of all movable and immovable property. According to Neely, the court also sentenced Panhai to a two-year ban on social media and a two-year ban on leaving the country. Referring to the handling of this case, Neely said: "Last week, the client announced that his bank accounts were blocked, and after we referred to the implementation of the rulings of the Culture and Media Prosecutor's Office, we discovered that he was convicted in absentia in another case, even though he returned to Iran on 10/10/40 during the war, but he was published abroad during the war. state". Panhi's lawyer added: "Meanwhile, Branch 16 of the Culture and Media Prosecutor's Office issued a summons on May 20, and on that exact date, my client was present at Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court for the hearing of his additional case. Also, in another case opened for a client at the prosecutor's office on September 16, by the same attorney, he appeared at the branch, and now Mr. Panhi has three open cases." Neely also stated that the time of the hearing in the new case was not given to his client and said that the verdict was given in his absence. Jafar Panhi, the director of the film "A Simple Accident", which won the Palme d'Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar in two categories, was sentenced to a year in prison in another case on charges of propaganda against the regime.