Iran denies that the brain death of young Armita Geravand was due to police beatings for not wearing a hijab

Iran has denied that the 16-year-old girl Armita Geravand, brain dead since the beginning of this month of October, is in this state due to beatings by the police caused by not wearing a hijab.

The Borna news agency, under the Iranian Ministry of Sports, maintains that Geravand, a 16-year-old student at the Arwa al Waghgi Technical and Vocational University, “suddenly fainted while boarding a subway car and fell on his back.”

She was transferred by ambulance with the help of Tehran metro personnel.. The 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.

According to the Borna agency, “unfortunately his prognosis is not promising despite the efforts of the medical staff and it has been declared that he is brain dead.”

Iranian opposition media maintain that the young woman was allegedly attacked by members of the 'Moral Police', the body in charge of ensuring correct compliance with Islamic dress, for not wearing the veil.

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.