TIL Desk/World/Tehran/ Iran has arrested a prominent actress Taraneh Alidoosti days after she criticised the execution of a man who was involved in the nationwide protests. Alidoosti had condemned the hanging of Mohsen Shekari, who was killed in December in the first known execution linked to the protests, according to reports. Taraneh Alidoosti was arrested as there was a “lack of evidence for her claims,”.
In November, Alidoosti shared a picture of herself on Instagram without the Islamic hijab and holding a sign reading “Women, Life, Freedom” to offer support for the protest movement. After Shekari’s execution, Taraneh Alidoosti in another post said, “Your silence means supporting tyranny and tyrants,” adding that “every international organization who is watching this bloodshed and not taking action, is a disgrace to humanity,” according to reports. Since then, her account on Instagram has been deleted.
She has featured in the 2016 Oscar-winning movie, The Salesman and has starred in various popular Iranian TV shows. In its report on Alidoosti, a news agency said, “Some celebrities make claims without evidence and publish provocations and have been thus arrested,”. The local rights group, Committee to Counter Violence Against Women in Iranian Cinema, in a post on Twitter said that it wasn’t clear which government department had taken Alidoosti into custody.
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