Czech filmmakers questioned for several days by Iranian police

Two Czech documentary makers were interrogated for several days after being arrested by police in Iran, the news website idnes.cz reported. Martin Šíma and Jan Šibík, who is best known as a photographer, were in the country making a film about a lawyer defending a woman condemned to death. They were arrested last month after recording some shots of young people in a park. Both are now back in the Czech Republic.

Author: Ian Willoughby