The report by IRNA mentioned Taraneh Alidoosti, star of the Oscar-winning film “The Salesman,” was detained every week after she made a put up on Instagram expressing solidarity with the primary man not too long ago executed for crimes allegedly dedicated in the course of the protests.
The announcement is the newest in a collection of movie star arrests, which have included footballers, actors and influencers, in response to their open show of help for anti-government demonstrations now 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 paperwork consistent with her claims”.
It said that several other Iranian celebrities had also ″been summoned by the judiciary body over publishing provocative content,″ and that some had been arrested. It provided no further details.
Shekari was executed December 9 after being charged by an Iranian courtroom 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 actresses, 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 nationwide soccer workforce and propagandizing in opposition to the federal government.” All three have been released.
Since September, Alidoosti has openly expressed solidarity with protesters in at 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 connection with the protests. Rahnavard’s body was left hanging from a construction crane as a gruesome warning to others. Iranian authorities alleged Rahnavard stabbed two members of its paramilitary force.
Both Shekari and Rahnavard were executed less than a month after they were charged, underscoring the speed at which Iran now carries out death sentences imposed for alleged crimes related to the demonstrations. Activists say at least a dozen people have been sentenced to death in closed-door hearings. Iran is one of the one the world’s top executioners.
Iran has been rocked by protests since the Sept. 16 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died after being detained by the morality police. The protests have since morphed into one of the most serious challenges to Iran’s theocracy installed by the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Alidoosti had previously criticised the Iranian government and its police force before this year’s protests.
In June 2020, she was given a suspended five-month prison sentence after she criticized the police on Twitter in 2018 for assaulting a woman who had removed her headscarf.
At least 495 people have been killed in the demonstrations amid a harsh security crackdown, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran, a group that has been monitoring the protests since they began. Over 18,200 people have been detained by authorities.
Other well-known movies Alidoosti has starred in include “The Beautiful City” and “About Elly.”
