Iran Arrests Actor Of Oscar Winning Movie Over Anti-Hijab Protests - NDTV

Iran arrested a salient histrion Saturday aft she voiced enactment for the 3 period aged protestation question triggered by the decease of a pistillate successful custody, Iranian media reported Saturday.

Taraneh Alidoosti, 38, was detained for "publishing mendacious and distorted contented and inciting chaos," the Tasnim quality bureau reported.

She is champion known for her relation successful the Oscar-winning 2016 movie "The Salesman".

Alidoosti's astir caller societal media station was connected December 8, the aforesaid time Mohsen Shekari, 23, became the archetypal idiosyncratic executed by authorities implicit the protests.

"Your soundlessness means the enactment of the oppression and the oppressor", work substance connected an representation shared to her Instagram account.

"Every planetary organisation who is watching this bloodshed and not taking action, is simply a disgrace to humanity," Alidoosti wrote successful the caption of her post.

The histrion has been a salient beingness successful Iranian cinema since she was a teenager. Recently, she starred successful the movie "Leila's Brothers", which screened astatine this year's Cannes Film Festival.

The Islamic republic has been rocked by protests triggered by the September 16 decease of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin, aft her apprehension for an alleged breach of the country's formal code.

On the time of Amini's death, Alidoosti posted a photograph to Instagram with substance saying: "Damnation to this captivity".

The caption to the station read: "Don't hide what Iran's women spell through" and asked radical to "say her name, dispersed the word".

On November 9, she posted an representation of herself without a headscarf, holding a insubstantial with the words "Woman, life, freedom", the main slogan of the protests.

Hot connected the heels of Shekari's execution, Iran publically hanged protester Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, connected December 12.

Nine different radical arrested successful transportation with the unrest person been sentenced to death.

Thousands of radical person been detained since the protests erupted and 400 person received jailhouse sentences of up to 10 years for their engagement successful the unrest, Iran's judiciary said Tuesday.

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