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An Iranian teenage girl injured weeks ago in a mysterious incident on Tehran’s Metro while not wearing a headscarf has died, state media reported Saturday.

The death of Armita Geravand comes after her being in a coma for weeks in Tehran and after the one-year anniversary of the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini which sparked nationwide protests at the time.

Geravand’s Oct. 1 injury and now her death threaten to reignite that popular anger, particularly as women in Tehran and elsewhere still defy Iran’s mandatory headscarf, or hijab, law as a sign of their discontent with Iran’s theocracy.

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[-] Phanatik@kbin.social 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't get what's so mysterious. The morality police saw her and clubbed her head until she was in a coma then the resulting brain bleed killed her. Case closed.

[-] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago

Iranian teen ~~injured on Tehran Metro while not wearing a headscarf has died, state media says~~ was murdered for not wearing headscarf but AP can't quite bring itself to call it murder

Fixed it

[-] Custodian1623@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

AP reported what happened to the extent of their knowledge, giving you enough information to come to that conclusion as a reader. There's plenty of other sources to find sensationalized headlines.

[-] loki@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

over a headscarf. just horrible.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 10 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian teenage girl injured weeks ago in a mysterious incident on Tehran’s Metro while not wearing a headscarf has died, state media reported Saturday.

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While a friend told Iranian state television that she hit her head on the station’s platform, the soundless footage aired by the broadcaster from outside of the car is blocked by a bystander.

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They also demanded an independent investigation by the United Nations’ fact-finding mission on Iran, citing the theocracy’s use of pressure on victims’ families and state TV’s history of airing hundreds of coerced confessions.

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The Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, which reports on abuses in Iran’s western Kurdish region and earlier published a photograph of Geravand in a coma, renewed its calls Saturday for an independent international investigation citing “the practice of the Islamic Republic in concealing the truth.”

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Geravand’s injury also came as Iran has put its morality police — whom activists implicate in Amini’s death — back on the street, and as lawmakers push to enforce even stricter penalties for those flouting the required head covering.

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Meanwhile, imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month in recognition of her tireless campaigning for women’s rights and democracy, and against the death penalty.

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[-] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Ooh new feature

this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2023
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