A 16-year-old Iranian girl was left brain dead after an alleged attack by morality officers on public transit for not wearing a hijab, Daily Mail reports.
An unconscious Armita Geravand was seen via CCTV footage in a train station being dragged out of one of the train cabs earlier in October.
Norway-based Kurdish human rights group Hengaw said Armita was assaulted by a female officer while riding the train for not wearing a hijab, which is required under Iran’s strict morality laws which require women to cover their hari in public.
Iranian authorities claim that Geravand suffered a drop in blood pressure, causing her to fall and hit her head inside the cabin. Geravand’s parents have gone along with this claim as well.
“I think my daughter’s blood pressure dropped, I am not too sure, I think they have said her pressure dropped,” her mother said. But she added that there was no point in creating controversy.
Geravand has been receiving treatment at a local hospital where relatives have reported that “there is a heavy presence of plain clothes at the hospital,”…
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