Like many personalities and human rights defenders since this weekend, director Asghar Farhadi also called on Tuesday for the "release" of Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti, arrested on Saturday in Iran for having supported the wave of protest. .
"I stand with Taraneh and call for his release and that of my fellow filmmakers
Jafar Panahi
and Mohammad Rasoulof, and all the other lesser-known prisoners whose only crime is that they wanted a better life
," he said. Asghar Farhadi on Instagram on Tuesday.
A figure in Iranian cinema and starring in the prodigious
Leïla et ses frères
presented at Cannes in May, Taraneh Alidoosti, 38, was arrested on Saturday for posts on social networks in support of protests denouncing in particular the execution of demonstrators, or in which we see her removing her veil.
“If showing such support is a crime, then tens of millions of people in this country are criminals
,” also wrote the two-time Oscar-winning Iranian filmmaker, who notably starred the actress in
The Client
, which won the Academy Award. 'Oscar for best foreign language film in 2017.
Taraneh Alidoosti is one of the most famous personalities arrested in connection with the protest movement which has been agitating Iran for three months.
Several representatives of Iranian cinema had also been worried or arrested by the authorities, even before the current wave of protest, such as directors Mohammad Rasoulof and Jafar Panahi, still in detention.
Since this weekend, calls for the release of the actress fuse, both in Iran and internationally.
"The courageous actress from Iran has been arrested"
, published on Instagram her colleague Golshifteh Farahani, who began her career in Iran before fleeing the country and settling in France.
The British pop group Pet Shop Boys denounced a
"fascist government"
in Iran following this arrest, while the Cannes festival called for the
"immediate release"
of Taraneh Alidoosti.
The protest in Iran was sparked by the September 16 death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd who died after being arrested in Tehran by morality police.
Since then, hundreds of people have been killed, thousands arrested and two 23-year-old men have been hanged.