Iranian Actress Faces Flogging Over Film

An Iranian actress continues to be sentenced to 90 lashes along with a year imprisonment for showing up within an Australian film displaying not putting on a headscarf. Marziah Vafamehr, star of 2009 film My Tehran Available, was jailed in This summer. Her sentence continues to be revealed by Iranian opposition website Kalameh.com. Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd stated the Australian government was deeply worried about Vafamehrs arrest. Cyan Films, the South Australia-based production company which made the award-winning film, stated it had been deeply shocked and appalled by her sentence. Ironically, My Tehran Available follows an actress who finds herself banned from focusing on stage through the Iranian government bodies. The film shows Iranian youthful people likely to subterranean raves, smoking hashish and making love before marriage acting, in a nutshell, like the majority of youthful people all over the world do. The producers have stated the film never was meant for distribution within Iran, and it is distribution around the underground community in Tehran continues to be totally outdoors what they can control. We still offer our support to Marzieh and her family by improving their desires to allow the situation and also the appeal stick to the proper legal channels, producers Kate Croser and Julie Ryan stated inside a statement. There's confusion in regards to what Vafamehr continues to be charged with: she seems to possess been arrested on grounds that My Tehran Available was shot within the Iranian capital without correct shooting permits. Both Cyan Films and Vafamehrs husband, Iranian filmmaker Nasser Taghvai, deny this. Vafahmehrs sentence comes the next day of Islamist protestors in Tunisia attempted to create fire to some TV station that tested Oscar-nominated film Persepolis: That film follows a youthful girl as she comes old from the backdrop from the Iranian revolution. Based on Kalameh.com, Vafamehrs lawyer has become a huge hit the sentence. This is actually the trailer: