Iranian authorities arrested one of many nation's most famous actresses Saturday on prices of spreading falsehoods about nationwide protests that grip the nation, state media stated.
The report by IRNA stated Taraneh Alidoosti, star of the Oscar-winning film "The Salesman," was detained per week after she made a publish on Instagram expressing solidarity with a person just lately executed for crimes allegedly dedicated through 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 assist for anti-government demonstrations now of their third month.
In line with the report printed on the state media's official Telegram channel, Alidoosti was arrested as a result of she didn't present "any paperwork in keeping with her claims.″
It stated 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 publish, the 38-year-old actress stated: ''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 Dec. 9 after being charged by an Iranian courtroom with blocking a avenue 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, have 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 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 building crane as a grotesque warning to others. Iranian authorities alleged Rahnavard stabbed two members of its paramilitary drive.
Each Shekari and Rahnavard have been executed lower than a month after they have 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 folks have been sentenced to loss of life in closed-door hearings. Iran is without doubt one of the one the world's prime executioners.
Earlier this week, the United Nations Financial and Social Council voted to take away Iran from its Fee on the Standing of Girls over the regime's response to the protests. The push to take away Iran was initiated by the U.S. final month. The fee is an intergovernmental physique devoted to selling gender equality.
Iran has been rocked by protests for the reason that Sept. 16 loss of life of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died after being detained by the morality police. The protests have since morphed into one of the critical challenges to Iran's theocracy put in by the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Alidoosti had beforehand criticized the Iranian authorities and its police drive earlier than this 12 months'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 lady who had eliminated her headband.
At the very 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 films Alidoosti has starred in embrace "The Lovely Metropolis" and "About Elly."