The Iranian actress is free again Taraneh Alidousti, who is being held in Tehran’s Evin prison after being arrested for taking part in anti-regime protests last month. Alidousti was released after posting 10 billion rials bail, his lawyer Zahra Minoui confirmed on Twitter. The actress was locked up in Block 209 of the dreaded Evin Prison, the one reserved for political prisoners. Upon her release, she was photographed saluting without wearing the hijab. Before his arrest on December 20, Alidousti had repeatedly spoken out against the Iranian authorities’ violent crackdown on demonstrators. After the hanging of the first demonstrator, the 23-year-old was arrested Mohsen ShekariThe actress wrote on Instagram: “To witness this bloodshed without taking action is a disgrace to humanity.” And before her profile was deactivated, she had also shared a photo of herself without a veil accompanied by the words: “Woman, life, freedom”, the slogan of the protest movement in Iran. In fact, she was accused of, among other things, “publishing distorted content and fomenting chaos”.
Alidousti had previously exposed herself politically, most notably in 2017 when she refused to attend the Oscars to protest Donald Trump’s decision to allow citizens of various Muslim countries to travel to the United States, including Iran to forbid. That night the film in which he starred, The Client of, was released Asgar Farhadi. During her detention, activists and colleagues from the cinema world had mobilized for her, with a daily garrison outside the penitentiary. It was they who greeted her with a bouquet of flowers as soon as she left.
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