Jafar Panahi

• Malala Yousafzai, Edward Snowden named for EU's Sakharov prize

  Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teen shot by the Taliban for championing girls' education, and US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden have been nominated for the European Parliament's prestigious Sakharov human rights prize.

• Edward Snowden named for European Union's Sakharov prize

  Green and left-wing lawmakers today nominated US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden for the European Parliament's prestigious Sakharov human rights prize.

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  Mira Nair: Didn't want to be third world apologist

  Director Mira Nair, who has been behind internationally acclaimed films like Salaam Bombay, Monsoon Wedding and The Namesake, says she has made a conscious effort throughout her career not to be a third world apologist.

• Iran upholds sentence against filmmaker Panahi

  A Tehran appeals court has upheld a six-year jail term and 20-year filmmaking and travel ban against award-winning Iranian director Jafar Panahi.

• Iran's leading filmmaker jailed for 6 years for working on 'anti-regime' film

  Jafar Panahi, a celebrated Iranian filmmaker who was arrested in February and accused of working on an "anti-regime" film, was sentenced to six years in prison on Saturday in Tehran, his lawyer told an Iranian news agency on Monday.Mr. Panahi, who had expressed support for Iran's opposition green movement during post-election protests in 2009, "has...