Taraneh Alidoosti, the Iranian actress and star of Asghar Farad‘s Oscar-winning The Salesman has been launched from jail after posting bail. Alidoosti’s mom, Nadereh Hakim Elahi, posted pictures of her daughter exterior Tehran’s Evin Jail shortly after her launch.

Alidoosti was detained on Dec. 17 after she posted her help of nationwide anti-government protests. A number of main movie festivals and movie business organizations — together with the Display Actors Guild, the European Movie Academy, and the Cannes, Berlin, Rotterdam and Tribeca movie festivals — condemned her arrest.

Lots of of artists worldwide, together with such Hollywood A-listers as Mark Ruffalo, Penélope Cruz, Jason Momoa, Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet, signed a petition protesting calling for her launch.

The Iranian authorities has been sharply criticized for its brutal crackdown on protestors and those that help them, a crackdown that has included the general public execution of some charged with alleged crimes associated to the demonstrations.

Iran has been rocked by protests because the Sept. 16 dying of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died after being detained by the morality police, a unit of Iran’s police power. Many think about the protests probably the most critical challenges to Iran’s theocratic rule because the founding of the Islamic Republic in 1979.

Alidoosti had beforehand criticized the Iranian authorities and its police power earlier than this 12 months’s protests. In June 2020, she was given a suspended five-month jail sentence after she criticized the police on Twitter in 2018 for assaulting a girl who had eliminated her headband.

One in all Iran’s best-known movie and TV actresses, Alidoosti has appeared in such movies as The Lovely Metropolis and About Elly.