The Iranian teenage lady who collapsed and fell right into a coma after boarding a Tehran metro prepare and not using a headband has died.
“Intensive medical remedies” have been unsuccessful and Armita Geravand died 28 days after being admitted to intensive care, Iran’s state information company IRNA reported. Final week, native media had confirmed that the 16-year-old lady was brain-dead.
Geravand collapsed on a prepare on October 1 on her solution to faculty. CCTV footage confirmed her pals dragging her limp physique off the prepare just a few seconds after boarding.
The official medical account said that Geravand “suffered a sudden drop in blood strain, collapsed, underwent a mind damage that resulted in seizures, cerebral hypoxia and oedema”, IRNA reported.
However Hengaw, a human rights group based mostly exterior Iran, claimed she had been “bodily attacked” by “hijab guardians” over her refusal to put on a scarf.
Masoud Dorosti, Tehran metro’s managing director, has rejected stories of any bodily confrontation, saying she had hit her head after fainting.
The incident stoked fears of one other wave of social unrest within the wake of the dying of Mahsa Amini.
Amini was taken into custody exterior a Tehran metro station for allegedly breaching hijab guidelines in September 2022. She collapsed on the morality police station and died in hospital three days later.
Her demise triggered anti-government protests that led to a whole lot of deaths. Iranian officers insisted she had died of a coronary heart assault and accused overseas provocateurs of spreading false stories that she had been crushed.
For the reason that protests, many Iranian ladies have refused to cowl their hair in public. Officers have largely ignored the breaches, however there have been stories of occasional clashes between ladies with uncovered hair and spiritual conservatives.
Hijab enforcers have in latest months been stationed on the Tehran metro to confront ladies not sporting the hijab.
In September, Iran’s parliament handed a contentious invoice that proposed harsh penalties for ladies defying the necessary hijab regulation.
However this week, the nation’s Guardian Council, which vets laws, refused to endorse the invoice and returned it to parliament over “ambiguities” within the textual content.