From Le Figaro with AFP
Published 42 minutes ago, updated 16 minutes ago
Iranian high school student Armita Garawand. Fan page screenshot.
The teenager was violently arrested in the Tehran subway for not wearing a veil. She was brain dead.
Iranian high school student Armita Garawand, who fell into a coma under controversial circumstances in the Tehran subway in early October, died on Saturday, local media reported.
“Armita Garawand, a student living in Tehran, died an hour ago after intensive medical treatment and 28 days of hospitalization in the special ward,” said the Borna agency, affiliated with the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
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The 16-year-old teenager from a Kurdish region had been hospitalized at Tehran’s Fajr Hospital since October 1 after he fainted in the capital’s subway.
The circumstances of this malaise are controversial. Authorities claimed the teenager was the victim of a “heat of tension” and denied any “verbal or physical altercation” between her “and any passengers or subway executives.”
On Saturday, the local Tasnim agency cited the “official statement of doctors” that the girl “suffered a fall that resulted in brain damage, followed by persistent convulsions, a decrease in oxygen supply to the brain and cerebral edema after a sudden drop. “Blood pressure.
But according to NGOs, the high school student was seriously injured in an “attack” by members of the morality police, which is responsible for enforcing Iranian women’s requirement to wear veils in public.
This case comes just over a year after the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd who died in custody on September 16, 2022, arrested by moral police for allegedly violating Iran’s strict dress codes for women.
This death sparked a large protest movement in the country, which left several hundred dead, including police officers, and resulted in the arrest of thousands of people.
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