'Dehumanizing': Actress' arrest highlights abuse, torture in Iranian prisons
Families of Iranian protesters in jail say their loved ones are being tortured. LONDON -- Actress Taraneh Alidoosti was arrested over the weekend by the Iranian regime for supporting the ongoing protests, becoming the most prominent person in the country to be targeted. Alidoosti, who starred in the 2016 film "The Salesman," which won an Academy Award for best foreign language film, had posted a photo of herself without a headscarf to her 8 million Instagram followers. She also held a sign with the revolutionary slogan: "Woman, life freedom." "Every international organization who is watching this bloodshed and not taking action is a disgrace to humanity," she posted on social media, denouncing the execution of protesters in prison. The protests began after a 22-year-old woman was detained by the country's morality police for not wearing a headscarf in public. She later died in prison. Alidoosti's first request was to allow her family to send her m...