Armita Garawand, a 17-year-old high school student, was reported dead on October 28 by Iran's state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) and multiple independent news outlets. On October 1, several media outlets reported that Armita fell, unconscious, on the platform of Tehran's Shohada metro station after being assaulted for not wearing a headscarf by an enforcer of compulsory hijab laws. She was taken to a hospital where she remained in a coma for 28 days. Security forces at the hospital
Iran s revolutionary court announced on 22 October its preliminary ruling in the case of Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi, two women journalists who were among the first to report about Mahsa Amini’s death and her funeral. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) renews its call on Iranian authorities to release all imprisoned journalists and media workers.
The international community must demand that the Iranian authorities allow the UN Fact-Finding Mission and other independent monitors to enter the country to investigate the circumstances leading to the hospitalization of 16-year-old Armita Garawand, who fell unconscious on a Tehran metro train after reports she was assaulted by an enforcer of Iran’s compulsory veiling laws, and has been in a coma since, said Amnesty International, amid mounting evidence of a cover up by the authorities. In the
Activists on Wednesday accused Iran’s morality police of assaulting a teenage girl for not wearing a headscarf in a Tehran metro station, leading to her hospitalization with serious injuries. But Iranian authorities and the teenager’s parents said she was hospitalized due to low blood pressure.
Activists have accused Iran’s morality police of assaulting a teenage girl for not wearing a headscarf in a Tehran metro station, leading to her hospitalization with serious injuries.