Actor and director Mani Haghighi has been prevented from leaving Iran to attend the BFI London Film Festival, where his film 'Subtraction' was due to premiere on Oct. 15
, and has collaborated teamed with Asghar Farhadi on two features. As an actor, he starred in Farhadi’s much-lauded breakout featureThe prevention of Haghighi from leaving Iran comes amid turmoil in the country following the death of Mahsa Amini while in police custody in Tehran on Sept. 16.
Her alleged murder at the hands of authorities sparked widespread protests with thousands — many of them teenage girls and women — taking to the streets to oppose the regime and to push for their basic rights, most prominently women’s rights, while a brutal authoritarian crackdown has, according to human rights groups, led to the killing of hundreds of people so far.
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