On Tuesday evening Panahi's wife, Tahereh Saidi, posted a photo on Instagram of herself and the dissident filmmaker at an airport, with both appearing happy to leave the country for France, after a 14-year ban.
Habib Chaab, who disappeared during a visit to Turkey in October 2020 and was then held in Iran, was found guilty of "corruption on earth" and the formation of a rebel group - Harakat al-Nidal - in December last year.
Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom described the death sentence given to Habib Chaab as "inhumane", and said that Stockholm, and the rest of the EU condemn capital punishment in "all its circumstances".
The brother of hunger-striking Iranian dissident Hossein Ronaghi says his brother's condition has "worsened" and he has been transferred to the hospital of Tehran's notorious Evin prison, where his detention "on false pretenses" continues.
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