In Iran, a 16-year-old girl fell into a coma after an incident on the subway in the capital Tehran. According to Kurdish human rights organization Hengaw on Tuesday, Kurdish woman Armita Garawand was killed on Sunday Confrontation with women of the morality police seriously injured and is currently hospitalized under heightened security conditions.
Iranian authorities, however, said Garawan was He passed out on the subway due to “low blood pressure”.. There were no clashes with security forces. According to exiled news portal IranWire, Garawand suffered a head injury in the clash.
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Since the death of 22-year-old Kurd Mahsa Amini, the country’s authorities have paid greater attention to possible reasons for the protests. Amini’s death after being detained by the morality police for allegedly not wearing a headscarf in accordance with regulations triggered weeks of protests against Tehran last autumn.
According to human rights organization Hengaw, 16-year-old Garawand was killed on Sunday at Tehran’s Shohada metro station. taken into custody by the moral police. The teenager, who came from the city of Kermanshah in the western Kurdish region of Iran, suffered serious injuries.
She is being treated at Tehran’s Fajr Hospital under tight security conditions. Not even family members were allowed to visit themHengaw explained further.
A video purporting to show the incident was shared online. It shows how a girl, who apparently does not wear a head covering, is pushed into the subway by police officers. Tehran metro director Masud Dorosti spoke of “rumors” and, according to the state news agency IRNA, rejected it as unfounded.
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