Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti arrested after criticizing execution of protester - CNN

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One of Iran’s best-known actresses has been arrested days aft she criticized the execution of a antheral who was progressive successful the nationwide protests that person swept the state since September.

Taraneh Alidoosti, who starred successful the 2016 Oscar-winning film, “The Salesman,” had condemned the hanging of Mohsen Shekari, who was killed this period successful the archetypal known execution linked to the protests. Shekari was reportedly convicted of “waging warfare against God” for stabbing a subordinate of the Basij paramilitary unit astatine a protestation successful Tehran connected September 23.

State media outlet Fars News Agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, said Alidoosti had been arrested due to the fact that determination was a “lack of grounds for her claims.”

Known arsenic a feminist activist, Alidoosti past period published a representation of herself connected Instagram without the Islamic hijab and holding a motion speechmaking “Women, Life, Freedom” to amusement enactment for the protestation movement.

After Shekari’s execution, she said successful different post: “Your soundlessness means supporting tyranny and tyrants,” adding that “every planetary enactment who is watching this bloodshed and not taking action, is simply a disgrace to humanity.”

Her Instagram relationship has since been deleted.

Days aft Shekari was hanged, a 2nd execution took spot connected December 12. Majidreza Rahnavard was hanged successful the northeastern metropolis of Mashhad aft helium was accused of sidesplitting 2 paramilitary officers.

“Some celebrities marque claims without grounds and people provocations and person been frankincense arrested,” Far News Agency said successful its study connected Alidoosti.

Local rights group, Committee to Counter Violence Against Women successful Iranian Cinema, said connected Twitter that it wasn’t wide which authorities section had taken Alidoosti into custody.

Alidoosti, who has appeared successful assorted fashionable Iranian TV shows, is known for her activism successful the MeToo question successful Iran’s cinema industry.

Last month, she denied reports that she had near Iran, penning that she planned to enactment successful the state and halt working.

“I volition basal by the families of prisoners and the killed and volition request justness for them. I volition combat for my location and I volition wage immoderate outgo to basal for my rights,” she wrote.

Several Iranians person been sentenced to decease by execution during the nationwide protests, which were sparked by the decease of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini aft she was apprehended by the state’s morality constabulary for allegedly not wearing her hijab properly.

Her decease touched a nervus successful the Islamic Republic, with salient nationalist figures coming retired successful enactment of the movement. The protests person since coalesced astir a scope of grievances with the authoritarian regime.

According to Amnesty International, arsenic of November, Iranian authorities were seeking the decease punishment for astatine slightest 21 radical successful transportation with the protests.

At slightest 458 radical person been killed successful the unrest since September, according to Norway-based Iran Human Rights connected Wednesday.

CNN cannot independently verify the fig of radical facing executions successful Iran, oregon the latest apprehension figures oregon decease tolls related to the protests, arsenic precise figures are intolerable for anyone extracurricular the Iranian authorities to confirm.