From Le Figaro with AFP
Published 57 minutes ago, updated 22 minutes ago
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According to various NGOs, the young girl was violently arrested in the Tehran subway on October 1 when she was not wearing an Islamic veil. She then allegedly fainted before being rushed to hospital.
Iranian high school student Armita Garawand, who fell into a coma under controversial circumstances in the Tehran subway in early October, is now brain dead, local media said on Sunday. “Armita Garawand’s health is not encouraging and despite the efforts of doctors, she appears to be brain dead,” said the Borna agency affiliated to the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
The 16-year-old teenager from a Kurdish region has 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.”
An attack by the moral police
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.