Tariq Qaadan and Jafar Ezzedine started taking food on Wednesday after a military court hearing.
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The country's cultural tsars disliked the taboo-busting productions of Jafar Panahi but reluctantly allowed them onto the screen.
Also in Karachi, gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot to death a Shiite professor, Sibt-e-Jafar, on Monday, said police officer Amir Farooqi.
In 2011, the jailed Iranian director Jafar Panahi won the award.
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Jafar Pahani's The Circle, a hard-hitting film about women prisoners, is possibly the boldest film to have come out of Iran since the revolution.
Last year, Jafar Panahi, the fifty-one-year-old Iranian film director currently under house arrest in Tehran, invited a documentary-filmmaker friend, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, to come over.
Jafar Kiani was an anonymous Iranian prisoner until earlier in the month he became the first Iranian to be stoned to death since 2002.
The "Tomorrow-Bokra" project, described by Jafar as "a beacon of solidarity and unity" was planned before the Arab Spring uprisings began almost a year ago.
What's more, one of Iran's most prominent and provocative filmmakers, Jafar Panahi, is currently in prison after the Iranian government sentenced him to six years of incarceration and a 20-year ban on any activities connected with making movies.
Abdurahman Jafar, a British Muslim lawyer and friend of Rashida's family, says her tragedy will not discourage anyone: in any case, journeys to Mecca always feel like an encounter with ultimate issues of life and death.
Jafar and Jones both say this is only the first step, and they have plans to record new versions of the song with a host of new artists -- Jones says Paul McCartney has already expressed interest.
Better known for his business ventures in heavy industry like oil and gas, Jafar refers to his social projects (which also include the Middle East Theater Company set up with the help of actor Kevin Spacey) as the "triple bottom line" -- profit, people and planet.
This is not the way the Islamic Republic of Iran usually treats its filmmakers, and a timely corrective is now at hand in the form of a 75-minute film, provocatively titled "This Is Not a Film, " that depicts the dismaying plight of the writer-director Jafar Panahi.
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