Tariq Qaadan and Jafar Ezzedine started taking food on Wednesday after a military court hearing.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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