Persepolis (film): Difference between revisions

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|region=Africa

|artist=Marjane Satrapi

|subject=Political/Economic/Social Opinion, Religion

|confronting_bodies=Tunisian Government

|date_of_action=October 2011 - May 2012

|location=Tunisia

|description_of_incident=On October 7, 2011, the privately owned Nessma television station broadcast “Persepolis,” an animated feature film about a girl’s childhood in Iran. The broadcast led to protests and a trial against the station's owner, Nabil Karoui, in Tunisia because it contained a scene depicting Allah, which some consider to be forbidden by Islam.

|description_of_result=Karoui was fined 2,400 dinars (about $1,700) on May 3, 2012 for airing the film. The ruling, which condemned Karoui for "broadcasting a film that disturbs public order and threatens proper morals," followed a long legal battle in a case widely seen as a landmark test of freedom of expression in the country that triggered the Arab Spring. The defence said it plans to appeal the verdict.

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The airing of the film prompted attacks on the station's offices and Karoui's home by protesting activists linked to Salafism, a conservative strand of Islam.