At Iranian film's Berlin premiere, calls not to forget Iranian people

Director Mahnaz Mohammadi, 51, likened the "existence of the Iranian people today" to the unbearable life endured by the film's imprisoned protagonist, Roya. Mohammadi, in an interview with AFP on Wednesday at the screening at a Berlin cinema, said Iranian prisoners are being put to death every four to six hours in the country "without justice". She said she had been forced to witness several hangings while imprisoned in Iran herself. The film, which opens with a lengthy sequence of physical and psychological torture inflicted on Roya...