16-year-old teenager fell into a coma because she did not wear a veil: Video blamed the police

She was banished from life by the Iranian morality police because she did not wear a headscarf. The trial of 16-year-old Kurdish origin Armita Garawand, who was allegedly attacked by regime police while she was on the subway in Tehran without wearing a headscarf, continues worldwide. The case, condemned by Iranian resistance organizations and spread by the Norwegian human rights organization Hengaw, is very reminiscent of that of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who died last year after being arrested for not wearing the veil correctly.

Armita comes from the predominantly Kurdish city of Kermanshah in western Iran, but currently resides in Tehran. According to Hengaw, who is sensitive to the problems of the Kurdish people, the young woman was subjected to “serious physical abuse” by the morality police in the subway. The incident was reportedly caused by a violation of the strict Islamic dress code, which was strengthened with tougher penalties this summer. Additionally, according to the Norwegian organization, the high school student is currently in a coma and under surveillance in a military hospital. Local media claimed that the girl was hospitalized after she lost consciousness in the subway due to “low blood pressure” and “hitting her head on a metal bar.” His friends took him off the train and called the emergency services.


State media released a short video from subway station surveillance showing a group of women removing an unconscious person from a subway car. Allegedly, these were not the young woman’s friends, but female police officers. According to two sources reported by the website IranWire, the young woman is currently hospitalized under tight security in Tehran’s Fajr hospital, is in a coma and “at the moment the victim is not allowed to visit even by her family”. Following the incident, journalist Maryam Lotfi from Shargh newspaper decided to visit the girl She went to the hospital for medical treatment but was immediately arrested, but later released. There was widespread controversy on social media over a video some claimed was related to the incident, which showed the teenager being pushed into the subway by female police officers along with her friends and apparently without a veil. Tehran Metro CEO’ Su Masood Dorosti denied that there was “any verbal or physical conflict” between the student and “passengers or metro managers”. Dorosti told state news agency IRNA: “Some rumors that there was a conflict with metro officials… are not true and CCTV The footage refutes this claim.” Opposition groups against the regime accuse the authorities of covering up the incident to prevent a new wave of protests, following the protests that broke out in the country following the death of Mahsa Amini while in custody by the morality police in Tehran.

Source: Today IT

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