Iranian teenager Armita Geravand, "brain dead" after an alleged attack by morality agents for not wearing the hijab

Armita Geravand, a 16-year-old Iranian teenager, was admitted into a coma on October 1 at the Fajr hospital after she was allegedly beaten by the 'Moral Police' for not wearing the hijab when she was in a metro station in Fajr. Tehran and, in the last few hours, it has emerged that he is “brain dead”, according to Iran's public media, which is reminiscent of the notorious case of Mahsa Amini.

“Follow-ups on Armita Geravand's most recent health status indicate that she is brain dead despite the efforts of medical staff,” reported the Borna news agency, which reports to the Iranian Sports Ministry.

The first information, collected by IranWire, stated that the young woman had a “cranial trauma” when she was transferred to the Iranian Air Force medical center, due to a fall “during a confrontation in the subway.”

However, new official versions of what happened emerged with a video broadcast by the official IRNA news agency in which Geravand's mother declared that her daughter had fainted after losing consciousness due to a drop in blood pressure.

Along these lines, Borna repeats the official version of events and that Geravand, a 16-year-old student at the Arwa al Waghgi Technical and Vocational University, “suddenly fainted when she was boarding a subway car and fell on her back” and was taken to the hospital center by ambulance with the help of metro station staff.

This information has also been collected by the Tasnim news agency, dependent on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the elite military and ideological body of the Iranian Armed Forces.

The young woman, a resident of Tehran, was at the Shohada metro station in the Iranian capital when she was allegedly attacked by members of the 'Moral Police', the body in charge of ensuring correct compliance with Islamic dress, for not wear the veil, according to information from media related to the opposition.

The Iranian media broadcast images from the security cameras in which several people take the young woman out of the car “after suffering a drop in tension”, although there is no trace of the previous moments, so several NGOs, including Iran Human Rights (IHR), suspect that the authorities are trying to cover up the incident.

As part of the event, a journalist from the Shargh newspaper sent to the scene to cover the events was detained, although she was later released.. The alleged aggression of the young woman is reminiscent of the death of the young Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa Amini, which led to massive protests against the Government of Iran.