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UA: 19\/16 Index: MDE 13\/3300\/2016 Iran\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Date: 22 January 2016<\/p>\n

URGENT ACTION
\nSIX YEARS IN JAIL FOR IRANIAN FILMMAKER
\nIranian filmmaker Keywan Karimi has been sentenced to six years in prison and 223 lashes, on charges that include \u201cinsulting Islamic sanctities\u201d and \u201cillicit relations\u201d. He has appealed, and is awaiting the outcome. If jailed for charges relating to his peaceful activities, he will be a prisoner of conscience.
\nKeywan (Keyvan) Karimi was sentenced on 13 October 2015 to six years in prison and 223 lashes, by a Revolutionary Court in Tehran. The court had convicted him of charges including \u201cinsulting Islamic sanctities\u201d and \u201cillicit relations\u201d. Amnesty International understands that he was not told until his last court hearing that he faced the charge of \u201cinsulting Islamic sanctities\u201d over a music video clip the authorities had found on his hard drive, for which he has received six years in prison. Instead, he had been charged with \u201cspreading propaganda against the system\u201d, which was not mentioned in the final ruling at all. Keywan Karimi\u2019s appeal hearing, at which representatives of security and intelligence bodies were present, was held on 23 December.<\/p>\n

Keywan Karimi had been arrested on 14 December 2013 and charged with \u201cspreading propaganda against the system\u201d in connection with his 2012 film Neveshtan Rooye Shahr (Writing on the City), about graffiti written on the walls of Tehran\u2019s streets. Except for a trailer on Youtube, the film has not been publicly screened. The charge of \u201cillicit relations falling short of adultery\u201d was brought against Keywan Karimi for \u201cshaking hands\u201d and \u201cbeing under one roof\u201d with a woman \u201cwho had not covered her head and neck\u201d. After he was arrested, Keywan Karimi was held in solitary confinement in Evin Prison without access to a lawyer. He was allowed to call his family for the first time one week after his arrest. He was released on bail after 12 days.<\/p>\n

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