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Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has not yet been officially charged a month after his arrest, his wife tells RFE/RL’s Radio Farda. Panahi, a supporter of Iran’s opposition movement, was arrested at his home on March 1. His wife, Tahereh Saeedi, who was allowed to meet him today for the first time since his arrest, says that he’s still being questioned. “They keep asking him the same question in order to find some contradictions in his comments,” Saeedi said in an exclusive interview with Radio Farda.
