Leila Hatami, acclaimed Iranian actress and the first Iranian woman to sit on the jury of the Cannes film festival was denounced as a sinner by hardliners and targeted by a petition that she be sentenced to one to ten years imprisonment and flogging for pecking the octogenarian festival director Gilles Jacob on the cheek.

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