Student Armita Geravand was seriously injured by moral guards because she was not wearing a headscarf on the subway.
Tehran. The Islamic regime in Tehran is responsible for the death of another student who rebelled against the requirement that women wear headscarves: According to a media report, a 16-year-old Iranian girl suffered brain death after a confrontation with moral guardians. As Tasnim news agency reported, despite her best efforts, doctors presume that young Armita Geravand is brain dead.
The case of the 16-year-old student caused great outrage in early October. According to reports from human rights activists, the young woman clashed violently with moral guards on the subway because she was not wearing a headscarf. The young woman, who was traveling with friends, defended herself from attacks by security forces. The girl had trained as a martial artist.
“Low blood pressure”
Armita Geravand has been in a coma in the hospital for weeks. Her mother has already been arrested. State media denied violence by the moral police. The official statement said the student fell and hit her head because of low blood pressure.
Groups like the Kurdish-Iranian Hengaw were the first to publicize Armita Geravand’s hospitalization. They published photos of the 16-year-old girl, in which she is seen unconscious with a breathing tube and a bandage on her head, apparently on life support.
Geravand’s fate reminds many Iranians of the case of young Kurdish Iranian 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. (ag.)