Student Armita Geravand did not wear a headscarf on the Tehran subway and may have clashed with moral guards. State media reported that she fell and hit her head.
A 16-year-old Iranian girl has died after an alleged confrontation with the notorious morality police. Student Armita Geravand died on Saturday at a clinic in the capital Tehran, state news agency IRNA reported. The young woman was declared brain dead about a week ago. The case caused widespread outrage far beyond Iran’s borders.
According to reports from human rights activists, the young woman was confronted by moral guards on a subway about a month ago because she was not wearing a headscarf. State media denied violence by the moral police. Geravand fell and hit his head due to low blood pressure, the official statement said. The 16-year-old had been in a coma for weeks.
Geravand’s fate reminds many Iranians of the case of young Iranian Kurd Jina Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by moral watchdogs in the fall of 2022 because of an allegedly ill-fitting headscarf. Amini fell into a coma and died. Her death sparked the worst protests in decades last year. Since then, many women have manifestly ignored the obligation to wear a headscarf. (APA/dpa/Portal)