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One of Iran's most prominent film-makers, Dariush Mehrjui, was stabbed to death on Saturday evening alongside his wife at their home near Tehran.
According to Hossein Fazeli-Harikandi, chief justice of Alborz province near Tehran, Mehrjui sent a text message to his daughter, Mona, at about 9:00 pm local time inviting her for dinner at their home in Karaj, west of Tehran. On Sunday, the Etemad newspaper included an interview with the film-maker’s wife saying she had been threatened and that their home had been burgled.
He then directed a string of well-regarded films including “Mr Gullible” , “The Cycle” before leaving Iran in the wake of the 1979 Islamic revolution. “I don’t make directly political films to promote a particular ideology or point of view. But everything is political,” he once said. The African Democratic Congress governorship campaign council in Kogi State on Sunday visited stakeholders in Ogorimagongo/Okene federal constituency, in Kogi Central Senatorial District, including monarchs, community and religious leaders. Okene is the home of the incumbent Governor Yahaya Bello and the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Ahmed Usman Ododo. The visits were in…
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