A 16-year-old girl has died after an alleged confrontation with Iran’s notorious vice police. Armita Geravand has been in a coma since the incident in early October. She died on Saturday in a clinic in the Iranian capital Tehran. The young woman was declared brain dead about a week ago.
According to reports from human rights activists, Armita was confronted by moral guards on the subway about a month ago for not wearing a headscarf.
State media denied the violence of the moral police. Geravand fell and hit his head due to low blood pressure, the official statement said.
Memories of Mahsa Amini
Geravand’s fate reminds many Iranians of the case of the young Iranian Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by moral watchdogs in the fall of 2022 for an allegedly ill-fitting headscarf.
Amini fell into a coma and died. Her death last year sparked the worst protests in decades. Since then, many women have demonstratively ignored the obligation to wear a headscarf.
The case caused widespread outrage far beyond Iran’s borders.
Source: Krone
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