One of Iran’s hottest actors, Taraneh Alidoosti, the star of the Oscar-winning film “The Salesman,” was arrested by the regime on prices of spreading falsehoods about nationwide protests, state media stated.
The report by the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) stated she was detained per week after she made a put up on Instagram expressing solidarity with the primary man not too long ago executed for crimes allegedly dedicated through the protests.
The announcement is the most recent in a sequence of celeb arrests which have included footballers, actors and influencers, in response to their open show of assist for anti-government demonstrations, which at the moment are of their third month.
According to the report revealed on the state media’s official Telegram channel, Alidoosti was arrested as a result of she didn’t present “any documents in line with her claims.” It stated a number of different Iranian celebrities had additionally “been summoned by the judiciary body over publishing provocative content.” It didn’t say what number of or present additional particulars.
In her put up, the 38-year-old actor stated: ”His title was Mohsen Shekari. Every worldwide group who’s watching this bloodshed and never taking motion, is a shame to humanity.” Shekari was executed on Dec. 9 after being charged by an Iranian court docket with blocking a road in Tehran and attacking a member of the nation’s safety forces with a machete.
In November, Hengameh Ghaziani and Katayoun Riahi, two different well-known Iranian actors, had been arrested by authorities for expressing solidarity with protesters on social media. Voria Ghafouri, an Iranian soccer participant, was additionally arrested final month for “insulting the national soccer team and propagandizing against the government.” All three have been launched.
Since September, Alidoosti has overtly expressed solidarity with protesters in at the least three posts on Instagram. Her account, which had some 8 million followers, has been suspended.
Last week, Iran executed a second prisoner, Majidreza Rahnavard, in reference to the protests. Rahnavard’s physique was left hanging from a development crane as a grotesque warning to others. Iranian authorities alleged Rahnavard stabbed two members of its paramilitary pressure.
Both Shekari and Rahnavard had been executed lower than a month after they had been charged, underscoring the pace at which Iran now carries out loss of life sentences imposed for alleged crimes associated to the demonstrations. Activists say at the least a dozen individuals have been sentenced to loss of life in closed-door hearings.
Alidoosti has beforehand criticised the Iranian authorities and its police pressure.
In June 2020, she was given a suspended five-month jail sentence after she criticized the police on Twitter in 2018 for assaulting a girl who had eliminated her scarf.
Other well-known films Alidoosti has starred in embrace “The Beautiful City” and “About Elly.”
