An Iranian teenage girl, Armita Geravand, who was injured in a mysterious incident on Tehran's Metro while not wearing a headscarf, has died. Her death threatens to reignite popular anger as women continue to defy Iran's mandatory headscarf law.
FILE - In this image from surveillance video aired by Iranian state television, women pull 16-year-old Armita Geravand from a train car on the Tehran Metro in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023. The Iranian teenage girl injured weeks ago in a mysterious incident on Tehran's Metro while not wearing a head scarf has died, Iranian state media reported Saturday, Oct. 28.
Iranian state TV’s report, however, did not include any footage from inside the train itself and offered no explanation on why it hadn’t been released. Most train cars on the Tehran Metro have multiple CCTV cameras, which are viewable by security personnel. The Associated Press has not been able to confirm the exact circumstances of what caused Geravand’s injuries.
Geravand suffered her injury at the Meydan-E Shohada, or Martyrs’ Square, Metro station in southern Tehran. Rumours about how she suffered the injury quickly circulated, something not mentioned by the IRNA report on her death Saturday. Amini died in a hospital on Sept. 16, 2022, after she was detained by Iranian morality police on allegations of improperly wearing the hijab. Suspicions that she was beaten during her arrest led to mass protests that represented the largest challenge to Iran’s theocratic government since the revolution.
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