Iranian actor Taraneh Alidoosti has been arrested after she expressed support for the current wave of anti-government protests.

Alidoosti, who is one of the country’s most famous performers and starred in the Oscar-winning film The Salesman, was detained by Iranian security forces and accused of “spreading falsehoods”, according to a report posted on the country’s state news agency IRNA’s official Telegram channel.

Her arrest came a week after she posted on Instagram about Mohsen Shekari, who was executed by the Iranian state after being found guilty of moharebeh, a Farsi word that loosely translates as ‘enmity against God’ and is defined as creating public insecurity by threatening people’s lives or property using a weapon.

In her post, Alidoosti criticised “international organisation[s]” that had failed to speak out in the wake of Shekari’s death.

Iranian actor Taraneh Alidoosti arrested after supporting anti-government protesters