Iran has been prey to demonstrations since the death on September 16 of the young Iranian Kurdish after his arrest by the police police in Tehran, who reproached him for having raped the strict dress code for women.
MO12345lemonde with AFP
In the fourth month of social and political challenge, the Iranian regime multiplies arrests. Taraneh Alidoosti, a famous Iranian and ardent militant women’s rights, was arrested, just like Mohammad Ali Kamfirouzi, the lawyer for Elaheh Mohammadi, 35, reporter of daily Ham-Mihan, and Niloofar Hamedi, 30 years old , photographer of the Shargh newspaper, detained since September.
“Taraneh Alidoosti was stopped because of his recent actions by publishing false information and content, and for incentive to chaos”, announced the agency Tasnim, without specifying the place of its arrest. Figure of Iranian cinema since his adolescence, Taraneh Alidoosti interpreted his most famous role in the film by Asghar Farhadi The Customer, Oscar for the best film in a foreign language in 2017.
“Pay the price”
She had repeatedly provided her support on Instagram to the demonstrations, triggered by the death on September 16 of Mahsa Amini. The 38 -year -old actress had notably denounced the authorities on December 8 for the hanging of Mohsen Shekari, executed after being accused of “war on God”. “Any international organization that looks at this bloodbath without react represents a shame for humanity,” she wrote on her Instagram page.
In November, she had promised to stay in her country, to “pay the price” that it will take to defend her rights and stop working to support families of people killed or arrested during demonstrations. Several Iranian cinema personalities have 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.
lawyers and journalists imprisoned
M e kamfirouzi, who was arrested on Wednesday, “received no summons, he is detained without any legal form and the reason for his arrest remains unknown,” said daily Ham -Mihan his advice, Mohammad Ali Bagherpour. According to Ham-Mihan, twenty-five Iranian lawyers have been “arrested across the country” since the start of the demonstrations. Thursday, Mohammad Kamfirouzi, the lawyer’s brother, announced that he was now holding the judiciary for “responsible” for his “life” and his “health”.
More than three hundred Iranian journalists and photojournalists criticized the authorities at the end of October in an open letter for having “arrested [their] colleagues and having deprived them of their rights” in particular “access to their lawyers”. Tuesday, the daily Shargh published a list of nearly forty journalists and photojournalists arrested in Iran in connection with the dispute.
Furthermore, the authorities released two minors under bond on Thursday in question for their presumed involvement in the protest movement, the reformer newspaper Etemad announced on Saturday. Since mid-September, hundreds of people have been killed and thousands arrested, leading to international convictions, sanctions and the expulsion of Iran, Wednesday, of a UN commission on women’s rights. Two 23 -year -old men were also hanged on December 8 and 12 in connection with disorders.