Famous Iranian actors Hengameh Ghaziani and Katyon Riahi have been arrested and imprisoned in Iran after they appeared publicly and on social media after removing their headscarves in a daring act of defiance and protest against the death of Mahsa Amini.
Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency said Ghaziani and Riahi were now behind bars after prosecutors summoned them in an investigation over “provocative” social media posts.
Ghaziani, a film and stage actress who has won several acting awards in Iran, on Saturday posted a touching video of herself on Instagram as she takes off her veil and walks proudly on a street in Tehran.
“This may be my last post,” she wrote. “From this moment on, whatever happens to me, I know that as always, I am with the Iranian people until my last breath.”
Riahi, who has starred in many Iranian films and TV shows, including the internationally known series “The Prophet Joseph,” inspired by the Qur’an and Islamic traditions, and which also won several awards, was arrested shortly after Ghaziani was arrested as part of the investigation. Himself. According to the Iranian news agency (IRNA).
After appearing without a headscarf in September in a televised interview with a London-based television station, Riahi expressed solidarity with the protests that have swept Iran since Amini’s death. Iran’s morality police arrested Amini, then 22, on September 13 in Tehran. She died at a police station three days later. Police say she died of a heart attack, but she had no history of heart disease.
Earlier this month, Taraneh Alidoosti, known to international audiences for her role in Asghar Farhadi’s “The Salesman”, posted a photo of herself without a headscarf on social media, which made global headlines.
Alidoosti, who vowed to stay in her homeland “at any cost”, was not arrested.
Farhadi, who at the September of the Zurich Film Festival issued a manifesto and video appeal urging artists around the world to declare their solidarity with the Iranian people protesting Amini’s death, has not since returned to Iran.
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