Los Angeles, June 7 -- Amid a retrial for his "propaganda activity against the regime", Palme d'Or-winning filmmaker Jafar Panahi's one-year prison sentence has been upheld by Tehran's Revolutionary Court, as per Variety.

In December last year, Panahi was sentenced in absentia on charges of engaging in propaganda activities against the Iranian state.

According to Variety, Panahi's lawyer, Mostafa Nili, announced the court's decision to reject the filmmaker's appeal during a press briefing in Tehran. Moving forward, the sentence can now be appealed to the Tehran Provincial Court of Appeal within twenty days, the lawyer added.

Notably, the sentence came down on Jafar Panahi when he was busy with the promotion of his Cannes Palme d'Or-win...