DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian teenage woman injured weeks in the past in a mysterious incident on Tehran’s Metro whereas not sporting a head scarf has died, Iranian state media reported Saturday.
The demise of Armita Geravand comes after her being in a coma for weeks in Tehran and after the one-year anniversary of the demise of Mahsa Amini and the nationwide protests it sparked.
Iran’s state-run IRNA information company reported her demise.
What occurred within the few seconds after Armita Geravand entered the practice on Oct. 1 stays in query.
Whereas a pal advised Iranian state tv that she hit her head on the station’s platform, the soundless footage aired by the broadcaster from outdoors of the automobile is blocked by a bystander. Simply seconds later, her limp physique is carried off.
Geravand’s mom and father appeared in state media footage saying a blood strain concern, a fall or maybe each contributed to their daughter’s harm.
Activists overseas have alleged Geravand might have been pushed or attacked as a result of she was not sporting the hijab. In addition they demanded an unbiased investigation by the United Nations’ fact-finding mission on Iran, citing the theocracy’s use of strain on victims’ households and state TV’s historical past of airing a whole lot of coerced confessions.
The IRNA report didn’t contact on any of the controversy surrounding Geravand’s harm.
“Sadly, the mind injury to the sufferer triggered her to spend a while in a coma and he or she died a couple of minutes in the past,” the IRNA report learn. “In line with the official principle of Armita Geravand docs, after a sudden drop in blood strain, she suffered a fall, a mind harm, adopted by steady convulsions, decreased cerebral oxygenation and a cerebral edema.”
Geravand’s harm additionally got here as Iran has put its morality police — whom activists implicate in Amini’s demise — again on the road, and as lawmakers push to implement even stricter penalties for these flouting the required head overlaying.
Amini died in a hospital on Sept. 16, 2022, after she was detained by Iranian morality police on allegations of improperly sporting the hijab. Suspicions that she was overwhelmed throughout her arrest led to mass protests that represented the biggest problem to Iran’s theocratic authorities because the revolution.
Since these large-scale protests subsided, many ladies in Tehran might be seen with out the hijab in defiance of the legislation.