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An Iranian woman who made herself look like a "zombie" Angelina Jolie and posted creepy pictures online as a "joke" has been jailed for 10 years. Fatemeh Khishvand, became an Instagram star as she fooled people into thinking she had surgically altered her face to make it look eerily gaunt, but her antics angered the regime in Tehran.
The 19-year-old, who went by the name Sahar Tabar and amassed almost 500,000 followers, was detained in October 2019 amid a crackdown on social media celebrities. She was charged with corruption of young people and disrespect for the Islamic Republic, and in April she begged to be freed, saying she had contracted coronavirus while being held in a notoriously grim prison.
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