Iranian actress Taranah Alidoosti, star of Asghar Farhadi's Oscar-winning 'The Salesman,' got a five-month deferred prison sentence in Iran for 'propaganda activities against the state.' Details:
The actress, who boycotted the Oscars in 2017 in protest over Donald Trump's travel ban, got five months for"propaganda activities against the state" after sharing a video of a police officer attacking a woman.Taranah Alidoosti has been sentenced to five months in prison.
According to U.K.-based Persian news channel Iran International TV, Alidoosti was charged with "insulting law enforcement" and engaging in "propaganda activities against the state," with the sentence — which has been deferred for two years — coming after the actress had shared a video of a member of Iran's plainclothes "morality police" insulting and attacking a woman on the street for not wearing the hijab headscarf.
"Following a legal complaint from the Deputy for Legal and Parliamentary Affairs of [Iran's law enforcement force], Taraneh Alidoosti was sentenced to five months in prison," tweeted arts and culture journalist Giso Faghfouri. "She is charged with 'insulting law enforcement. The subject of [the law enforcement force's' complaint was her re-posting of a controversial film showing an encounter between a morality police officer and a woman.
Iran International TV had reported that Alidoosti was summoned to Branch 9 of the Culture and Media Prosecutor’s Office on January 21, 2020 and was charged with "propaganda activities against the state." In 2017, Aldoosti — who has previously used social media to criticize the Iranian government — sparked headlines when she boycotted the Academy Awards ceremony, wheretook the best foreign language film award, in protest over Donald Trump's proposed visa ban, which she said was "racist."
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