(Tehran) Iranian authorities released famous actress Hengameh Ghaziani on bail on Sunday, two news agencies said, more than a week after she was arrested for supporting the protest movement.
Iran is the scene of protests sparked on September 16 by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, after she was arrested by vice police for allegedly breaking the Republic’s strict dress code. Islamic. The authorities denounce “riots” encouraged according to them by the West.
Mme Ghaziani was released Sunday “by order of the judicial authority”, announced the same day in the evening the official agency Irna. According to the Tasnim agency, she was released on bail.
Hengameh Ghaziani was arrested on November 20 for inciting and supporting the “riots” and communicating with opposition media, according to Irna.
The actress had posted on her Instagram account a video shot in a street in Tehran in which she is bareheaded in front of the camera without speaking, then turns around and makes a ponytail like other women do before go demonstrate.
The 52-year-old has twice won Best Actress at the Fajr Film Festival in Tehran in 2008 and 2012.
The Irna agency also announced the release on Monday of “former state television host Mahmoud Shahriari, after two months of detention”.
Aged 63, he was arrested at the end of September for having “encouraged riots and solidarity with the enemy”.
On the other hand, justice summoned a professor from the University of Tehran, Sadegh Zibakalam, on Monday for “having made mention without proof” on Sunday on Twitter of the death of “more than 400 Iranians” in the demonstrations, announced Irna.
“This figure was based on the report of the Norwegian-based Iranian Human Rights Organization (Iran Human Rights) and statements by Persian-language media abroad, and I have no reliable information on the number of people killed,” Zibakalam wrote on Telegram on Monday after his summons.
On Saturday, local media announced the release of the famous Kurdish footballer, Voria Ghafouri, arrested on Thursday for “propaganda” against the state. His wife denied his release on Instagram.
The Tasnim agency announced on Monday evening that Mr. Ghafouri had been released “on bail a few minutes ago” and that “his file will be dealt with by the courts later”.
Authorities have reported thousands of people arrested in connection with the protests, including film, political and sports figures.
More than 700 prisoners have been released after the Iranian team’s victory over Wales at the World Cup in Qatar, the Judicial Authority agency Mizan Online announced on Monday.