Los Angeles, Oct. 28 -- Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who was already facing a one-year prison sentence, has now been sentenced to five years and one month in a separate ruling by a Tehran Revolutionary Court.

Panahi's lawyer Mostafa Nili shared with Emtedad News Agency that the court has now sentenced his client in absentia to five years and one month of imprisonment - though implementation of both rulings is discretionary - and issued an order for the confiscation of Panahi's assets, plus a two-year ban on using social media a two-year travel ban, as per Variety.

Panahi's lawyer said his client's bank accounts were suddenly frozen last week, prompting them to visit the prosecutor's office in Tehran, where they learned that the verdi...