Iranian authorities have arrested one of many nation's most famed actresses on costs of spreading falsehoods about nationwide protests that grip the nation, state media mentioned.
The report by IRNA mentioned Taraneh Alidoosti, star of the Oscar-winning film "The Salesman," 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 throughout the protests.
The announcement is the newest in a collection of superstar 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
In response 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 in step with her claims".
It mentioned that a number of different Iranian celebrities had additionally ″been summoned by the judiciary physique over publishing provocative content material,″ and that some had been arrested. It offered no additional particulars.
In her put up, the 38-year-old actress mentioned: ''His title was Mohsen Shekari. Each worldwide group who's watching this bloodshed and never taking motion, is a shame to humanity."
Shekari was executed December 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 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 crew and propagandizing towards the federal government." All three have been launched.
Since September, Alidoosti has overtly expressed solidarity with protesters in at the very least three posts on Instagram. Her account, which had some 8 million followers, has been suspended.
Final 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 ugly warning to others. Iranian authorities alleged Rahnavard stabbed two members of its paramilitary pressure.
Each Shekari and Rahnavard had been executed lower than a month after they had been charged, underscoring the pace at which Iran now carries out demise sentences imposed for alleged crimes associated to the demonstrations. Activists say at the very least a dozen folks have been sentenced to demise in closed-door hearings. Iran is likely one of the one the world's prime executioners.
Iran has been rocked by protests for the reason that Sept. 16 demise of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died after being detained by the morality police. The protests have since morphed into one of the vital critical challenges to Iran's theocracy put in by the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Alidoosti had beforehand criticised the Iranian authorities and its police pressure earlier than this yr's protests.
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 headband.
At the least 495 folks have been killed within the demonstrations amid a harsh safety crackdown, in response to Human Rights Activists in Iran, a bunch that has been monitoring the protests since they started. Over 18,200 folks have been detained by authorities.
Different well-known motion pictures Alidoosti has starred in embody "The Stunning Metropolis" and "About Elly."