Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti has been released on bail after more than two weeks in detention. She was in the infamous Ewin Prison after declaring her solidarity with the women’s movement in Iran and posting a photo without a headscarf on Instagram.
As a result, her account was blocked with about eight million followers. The photo without the mandatory headscarf in Iran has since been removed. As the newspaper “Shargh” reported on Wednesday, Alidoosti was arrested in mid-December in connection with the nationwide protests in Iran. The actress is said to have spread false information and supported counter-revolutionary circles.
More than 600 artists and filmmakers had demanded their release in an open letter. Representatives of the Cannes Film Festival joined this demand. The 38-year-old celebrated the premiere of her new film “Leila’s Brothers” there last year. In Iran, the work in cinemas was banned.
More conciliatory tones to the headscarf
On Wednesday, Iran’s head of state, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made a more conciliatory remark about the headscarf requirement. “Bad or loose headscarves are not good. But that doesn’t mean we should see them in opposition to religion and revolution. We all have weaknesses that we need to fix, and anything we can fix will get better,” he told the IRNA news agency. The strict Islamic dress code has been in effect since the Islamic revolution in 1979.
However, more and more women in metropolitan areas can now be seen in public without a headscarf. While the so-called vice police, which also arrested Amini, have almost completely disappeared from the streets, the mandatory wearing of a headscarf would be followed by other methods, such as video surveillance. The country’s political leadership has been under immense strain since nationwide protests erupted in mid-September.
Source: Krone
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