Taraneh Alidoosti, star of the 2017 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar-winning movie The Salesman, has been arrested by Iranian authorities on charges of spreading falsehoods about the big protests that have gripped the country. In November, Alidoosti posted a picture of herself to Instagram where she’s not wearing the hijab and is holding a piece of paper with the protest’s catchcry “women, life, freedom”. And last week, she expressed solidarity with the first man executed for crimes allegedly committed during the demonstrations. ″His name was Mohsen Shekari. Every international organization who is watching this bloodshed and not taking action is a disgrace to humanity,” she said in the social media post. The 38yo isn’t the first popular figure to be detained, but ​​she is regarded as one of the most influential Iranian actors of her generation, so the symbolism is huge. Activists say at least a dozen people have been sentenced to death in closed-door hearings, and there are fears these will be carried out soon.