Why Iran detained Taraneh Alidoosti, one of the country’s most famous actresses

Iranian cinema today called for the release of actress and director Taraneh Alidoosti, arrested yesterday for denouncing the executions of protesters who participated in the protests that are shaking Iran.

The artist was arrested for “posting false and distorted content, inciting riots and supporting anti-Iranian movements” after condemning the execution of Mohsen Shekarithe first hanged for participating in the protests.

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“Instead of treating her violently, listen to what this popular artist has to say”wrote on his Instagram the actor Shahab Hosseini, who has coincided with Alidoosti in various productions.

A person shows a tweet about the hanging of Mohsen Shekari by the Iranian authorities. (AFP photo). (-/)

“Release her and return her to the arms of her little daughter”, added the actor.

Actresses Hanie Tavasoli and Parinaz Izadyar, among others, posted messages on social media calling for the release of the protagonist of the film “The Salesman”, directed by Asghar Farhadi and that 2017 won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

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Several filmmakers and performers came to Tehran’s Evin prison, where she has been imprisoned, to inquire about their status, including the well-known Peiman Maadi.

His arrest is related to the protests that began last September over the death of Mahsa Amini after being arrested by the Morality Police for not wearing the Islamic veil properly, carried out mainly by young people and women.

Mahsa Amini died on September 16, three days after she collapsed in a so-called morality police detention center.

Known for her feminist activism, Alidoosti posted a video in November without a headscarf and holding a sign reading “woman, life and freedom,” the slogan of the protests.

And more recently, he harshly condemned the execution of Shekarithe 23-year-old who was hanged on December 8 for wounding a Basij – Islamic militant – with a knife, blocking a street and creating terror in Tehran.

“Your silence means that you support tyranny and tyrants,” he wrote on his Instagram account.now blocked.

ACTRESSES SUPPORT THE PROTESTS

Alidoosti is not the first actress to find herself in trouble for her support of the protests.

The interpreters Hengameh Ghaziani and Katayoun Riahi were arrested in November for removing their veils, which has cost them charges of “intent to act against national security” and “propaganda against the State”, although they were later released.

today, Iranian actress and film director Niki Karimi announced that she has canceled all her projects in a message on networks with the slogan “woman, life freedom” in which she has denounced “these months of suffocation and intimidation of ‘don’t say and don’t write'”.

The protests began over the death of the 22-year-old Kurdish girl, but have evolved and Now the protesters, especially young people, are calling for the end of the Islamic Republic, founded by Ayatollah Ruholá Khomeini in 1979.

After three months of mobilizations, with more than 400 deaths and thousands of arrests, the authorities have begun to execute protesters to try to control mobilizations led mainly by young people and women, who are asking for more freedoms.

Just four days after Shekari’s execution, Majid Reza Rahnavard, also 23, was publicly hanged for the alleged murder of two Basiji in Mashad (northeast), after being convicted in a one-day trial for “enmity against God.” ”.

Source: Elcomercio