News about Taraneh Alidoosti

Since releasing a snapshot of herself without a headcarf and protesting support for the demonstrators, Taraneh Alidoosti, 38, was arrested for'publishing inaccurate and distorted content and inciting chaos.' On an image shared to her Instagram account, she wrote, "Your silence signifies the support of the oppression and the oppressor." 'Any international body that is watching this bloodshed and not taking action is a disgrace to humanity,' Alidoosti wrote in the caption of her story.'

After posed without a headscarf (right), a leading Iranian actress who appeared in an Oscar-winning film has risked arrest. Taraneh Alidoosti, 38, (left), who received the Best Foreign Language Film award at the Oscars in 2017, was sentenced to five months in prison for posting a video of a morality police officer assaulting a woman on a street in Iran for not wearing a hijab. A national protest against Iran's clerical establishment has erupted following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of Tehran's notorious "morality" police on September 16. In Kurdish, the actress shared a portrait of herself without a head scarf and holding a sign that reads: "Woman, Life, Liberty" Protesters against the Iranian regime are outraged by the word.