The young woman who was attacked in the Tehran subway, allegedly for not wearing a veil, dies

Young Armita Gaavand died this Saturday after being in a coma for 28 days following an alleged altercation with authorities for not wearing the Islamic veil in the Tehran metro, state agency IRNA reported.

Iranian authorities have claimed the 16-year-old girl hit her head after experiencing a power outage in the capital’s subway, but human rights groups have reported she was attacked for not covering herself with the mandatory Islamic veil.

Security footage released by IRNA shows Garavand and two friends entering one of the capital’s subways and then two of them exiting with the third, a video authorities have used to show no attack took place.

However, Amnesty International has stated that the video has been manipulated with the acceleration of frames in four sections and there are pauses of more than three minutes in the publicly released recording.

The Kurdish human rights organization Hengaw, based in Oslo, has reported that the young woman was attacked for not wearing the Islamic veil. mandatory in the country since 1983.

The case is similar to that of young people Mahsa Aminiwho died just over a year ago after being arrested by the so-called morality police for not properly wearing the Islamic veil, a death attributed by authorities to natural causes.

Caused his death heavy protests who called for the end of the Islamic Republic for months and only disappeared after a repression that left 500 dead, arrested at least 22,000 people and saw the execution of seven demonstrators, one of them in public.

In recent months, the Iranian government has attempted to reintroduce the use of the veil, with the presence of patrols on the streets, the denial of services and the passage of a law that tightens the penalties because she didn’t cover her hair.