2023-10-28 07:07:03
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian teenager who was injured a few weeks ago in a mysterious incident on the Tehran subway while her head was not covered with a scarf has died, Iran’s state media reported Saturday.
Armita Geravand’s death came after spending weeks in a coma in the capital and after the first anniversary of Masha Amini’s death, which sparked major protests across the country.
Iran’s state news agency, IRNA, reported the death.
What happened during the seconds after Armita Geravand entered a train on October 1 remains unknown.
Although a friend told Iranian state television that she had hit her head on the station platform, in the soundless images broadcast by the channel from outside the car there is a person in front. A few seconds later, they take the inert body to another place.
Geravand’s parents appeared in state media saying that a blood pressure problem, a fall or perhaps both contributed to their daughter’s accident.
Activists abroad have alleged that Geravand may have been pushed or attacked because she was not wearing a hijab. They demanded an independent investigation by the United Nations fact-finding mission on Iran, alleging that the theocracy puts pressure on victims’ families and that state television has a history of broadcasting hundreds of coerced confessions.
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