Laid in a coma for 28 days
The 16-year-old had been in a coma since October 1st. She was hospitalized after suffering a head injury in the Tehran subway. The girl was attacked by a guard because she took off her veil and hit her head during the argument. His case sparked immediate outrage. The government in Tehran then tried to deny this version, claiming instead that Armita Geravand hit her head after fainting due to a drop in blood pressure. But the videos in the subway show the attack.
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On October 23 last year, Armita Geravand’s father announced the girl’s brain death. “Arita’s brain is not functioning at the moment and there is no hope for her recovery,” he wrote on social media. The young woman’s mother, Shahin Ahmadi, was prevented from entering Tehran’s Fajr Hospital to see her daughter and after her protests, the woman was taken into custody. In recent weeks, doctors had already informed Armita Geravand’s family that her condition was desperate. News had also spread that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s regime was pushing to keep the girl alive. The reason is the fear that with the death of the girl, the flow of people could return to demonstrating, as happened during the street protests that broke out after the death of Mahsa “Jina” Amini, the 22-year-old. The one-year-old Kurdish girl was arrested by the country’s moral police for wearing the hijab poorly and died after the beating she suffered in the detention center. Like the 16-year-old, Mahsa Amini was also hospitalized: she died three days later and became the detonator that ignited the anger of the movement, which has been marching through the streets since September 2022 with the cry of “Woman, Life, Freedom”.
