After two months in custody in his native country, Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, 49, was released today on approximately $200,000 bail, the AP reports. Panahi, who has earned awards at the Chicago, Cannes, and Berlin film festivals, initiated a hunger strike May 16 to protest his imprisonment, and also demanded to see his family as

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