A year after being detained for her social media activities, the Iranian ‘Zombie Angelina Jolie’ Instagram celebrity has been sentenced to a decade in prison, according to her lawyer.

According to The Guardian and BBC News Persian, Sahar Tabar, whose real name is Fatemeh Khishvand, was convicted last week for corruption of young people and insulting the Islamic Republic. According to Iranian journalist and activist Masih Alinejad, she will be imprisoned for the next ten years.

Ms Alinejad broke the news on Twitter, saying, ’10 years jail for Iranian Instagramer who used make up & Photoshop to become a zombie Angelina Jolie.’

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‘Sahar Tabar is only 19. Her joke landed her in jail,’ she wrote. ‘Her mother cries every day to get her innocent daughter freed. Dear Angelina Jolie! we need your voice here. Help us.’

She had asked the actor to advocate for her, saying, “The Islamic Republic has a history of tormenting women. We need to be united against this gender apartheid.” Jolie is a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Goodwill Ambassador.

Other allegations include “blasphemy, inciting violence, gaining income through inappropriate means and encouraging youths to corruption.”

Tabar had already been in prison for 15 months.

She used to share extremely distorted images of herself that she had manipulated with cosmetics and editing. She rose to fame in pictures in which she portrayed roles played by Angelina Jolie.

Her photographs, which made her look like a zombie-Angelina Jolie, drew 486,000 followers, and her Instagram following had grown to almost 500,000 people.

Tabar confessed to her alleged crimes on Iranian official television last October, then appealed for her release in the spring, sayign she had got the coronavirus.

In 2017, Sahar stated in an interview with the Russian website Sputnik, “Every time I publish a photo, I paint my face in an increasingly funny way. It is a way of expressing yourself, a kind of art. My fans know that this is not my real face.”