Armita Geravand did not make it: the 16-year-old died after being hospitalized for a month following a brutal attack in the Tehran subway by morality police officers who accused her of not wearing a veil. The news of the death of 16-year-old Armita, who was in a coma, came from the Iranian agency Irna. According to the official version, the young woman experienced a sudden drop in blood pressure while she was on the platform of Shohada metro station.
Iranian media published footage from security cameras showing several people dragging the girl from the subway car “after her blood pressure dropped”, but there is no footage of the earlier moments, so various NGOs, such as Human Rights Iran (IHR), suspect that the authorities do not want to explain what happened .
Recently, activists from the non-governmental organization Hengaw and Zamaneh radio accused Iran’s morality police of putting the girl, originally from the Kurdish-majority province of Kermnshah, into a coma because she was not wearing a veil, and of pushing her because she was not wearing a veil. She climbed into the subway without a veil, but ended up hitting her head on the iron pole. Armita’s case is reminiscent of that of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd who was stopped in Tehran and died in September last year after being arrested for not wearing the veil correctly.
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Source: Today IT
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