The young woman attacked in the Tehran subway, supposedly for not wearing a veil, dies
The authorities maintain that the 16-year-old girl hit her head after experiencing a power drop in the subway, but human rights groups have reported that she was attacked for not covering herself with the mandatory Islamic veil.
The young Armita Garavand died this Saturday after spending 28 days in a coma after an alleged altercation with the authorities for not wearing the Islamic veil in the Tehran subway, the state agency IRNA reported.
The Iranian authorities have claimed that the 16-year-old girl hit her head after experiencing a power drop in the capital's subway, but human rights groups have reported that she was attacked for not covering herself with the mandatory Islamic veil.
Security images released by IRNA show how Garavand and two friends enter one of the capital's metro cars and then two of them leave carrying the third, a video that the authorities have used to demonstrate that no attack occurred.
Amnesty International, however, stated that the video has been manipulated with the acceleration of frames in four sections and there are lapses of more than three minutes in the recording made public.
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 the young Mahsa Aminiwho died a little over a year ago after being detained by the so-called morality police for not wearing the Islamic veil properly, a death that authorities attributed to natural causes.
His death caused strong protests who for months called for the end of the Islamic Republic and only disappeared after a repression that caused 500 deaths, the arrest of at least 22,000 people and in which seven protesters were executed, one of them in public.
In recent months the Iranian Government has been trying to reimpose the use of the veil, with the presence of patrols in the streets, the denial of services and the approval of a law that toughens punishments for not covering her hair.
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