German police say Berlin-based Iranian artist missing for 11 days
By APFriday, June 4, 2010
Police say Iranian artist missing for 11 days
BERLIN — German police say a renowned exiled Iranian artist and filmmaker has been missing for 11 days and authorities are trying to determine his whereabouts.
Berlin police spokesman Guido Busch said Friday they currently have no information on where Daryush Shokof is. He said that “as of now we don’t have any evidence that a crime took place.”
The 55-year-old Berlin resident was last seen May 24 in Cologne, where he planned to board a train to Paris.
Kazem Moussavi, a friend of Shokof’s, said that Shokof was “a harsh critic of the Iranian government and constantly received threatening phone calls.”
Last month, two new Shokof films critical of the Iranian government were shown in Berlin.
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