Called on the Iranian authorities to release
Jafar Panahi,
arrested on 1 March 2010 along with
Mohammad Rasoulof and
Mehdi Pourmoussa. Mitterrand described Panahi as a "great figure
of the cinema". Pourmoussa and Rasoulof were released from the Evin prison on 17 March 2010, but Panahi remains in ward 209.