United Nations Raises “Grave Concerns” With Iran Over Treatment Of BBC News Journalists

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent The Venice Film Festival is launching two initiatives to support directors, filmmakers and artists who have been arrested or imprisoned around the world during the past year. In tandem with the International Coalition Filmmakers at Risk (ICFR), a panel will be held on Sept. 3 at the Palazzo del Casinò press conference room titled: “Filmmakers Under Attack:Taking Stock, Taking Action.” Panelists will include fest chiefs Alberto Barbera (Venice);  Vanja Kalurdjercic (Rotterdam); Orwa Nyrabia (Amsterdam Documentary Film Festival); Turkish producer Nadir Öperli; European Film Academy president Mike Downey and an unspecified Iranian director. 

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorThe international trailer has been debuted for Jafar Panahi’s “No Bears,” which has its world premiere on Sept. 9 in competition at Venice Film Festival, before moving to Toronto Film Festival and New York Film Festival. Celluloid Dreams, which is handling world sales, has revealed territory deals with several distributors.

An Oscar statue goes missing in Hassan Nazer’s amiable feature Winners, which had its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Padma Lakshmi is sending her well wishes to ex-husband Salman Rushdie after he suffered life-threatening injuries over the weekend.

The Iranian government has denied any involvement in Friday’s attack on Salman Rushdie and laid the blame at the feet of The Satanic Verses author and his supporters.

Naman Ramachandran UPDATED Monday: The Iranian government has denied any involvement in the attack on Salman Rushdie, according to the Associated Press.Nasser Kanaani, a spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, said in a briefing to journalists on Monday: “We, in the incident of the attack on Salman Rushdie in the U.S., do not consider that anyone deserves blame and accusations except him and his supporters. Nobody has right to accuse Iran in this regard.”UPDATED Sunday: Booker Prize winning author Salman Rushdie remains in critical condition, but retains his feisty sense of humor, his son Zafar Rushdie said in a statement.“Following the attack on Friday, my father remains in critical condition in hospital receiving extensive ongoing medical treatment.

Author Salman Rushdie has been removed from his ventilator and is starting the long road back from his stabbing injuries.

Padma Lakshmi is breathing a sigh of relief for ex-husband Salman Rushdie.

Warner Bros. Discovery today issued a statement supporting Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling, who was threatened by a Twitter user for her anguish at last week’s attack on fellow author Salman Rushdie.

Salman Rushdie, now recovering in hospital after being stabbed on Friday, told a German magazine just a fortnight ago that his life now was “very normal”, and that he would have faced much more danger if social media had existed back when his novel The Satanic Verses was published in 1988, and that death threats to public figures had become “normal.”

New York Times Friday evening. “The news is not good,” Wylie said via email. “Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged.” Rushdie, who is 75, remains hospitalized in Pennsylvania, where he as airlifted after the attack.

Author Salman Rushdie has been attacked while on stage in New York, police have reported.The Booker Prize winner, whose books include Midnight’s Children, was attacked on the morning of Friday 12 August just before he was scheduled to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in New York. According to New York State Police, a male suspect ran onto the stage where he attacked the 75 year old author and an interviewer at the event.

Salman Rushdie was attacked while lecturing Friday in New York, where he was stabbed in the neck by an unnamed man who rushed the stage. Rushdie, 75, was quickly airlifted from Western New York’s Chautauqua Institution, where he had been due to speak. Gov.

have gone viral in Middle Eastern social media circles.The Depp doppelganger — sporting the actor’s distinctive hair, goatee and shades — was pictured at the Shia festival of Ashura this past week in the northern city of Tabriz, Iran.

K.J. Yossman The United Nations has escalated the BBC’s complaint over Iran.In March, the British broadcaster filed an “urgent” U.N.

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arrest on Sunday and her security going forward. Sullivan later tweeted about their conversation.I called @AlinejadMasih on behalf of President Biden to express concern about her safety and thank her for her human rights advocacy.