Iranian Authorities Release Star of Award-Winning Movie Jailed for Supporting Protests

Iranian Authorities Release Star of Award-Winning Movie Jailed for Supporting Protests
Actress Taraneh Alidoosti during a photo call for the film "Forushande" (The Salesman) at the 69th international film festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 21, 2016. Joel Ryan/AP Photo
Katabella Roberts
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An Iranian actress who showed solidarity with protesters in Iran following the death of a young woman while in the custody of the country’s morality police has been released from prison on bail, state media outlets reported on Dec. 4.

Taraneh Alidoosti, 38, was photographed holding a bouquet of flowers and surrounded by what appeared to be friends and supporters outside of Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison on Jan. 4. She wasn’t wearing the mandatory hijab in the photographs.

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