Armita Geravand, 16, can be seen in CCTV images being dragged unconscious from a Tehran metro train.
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video An Iranian teenager who was reportedly assaulted by state morality police for not wearing a mandatory hijab is now ‘brain dead’, it has been claimed. Armita Geravand, 16, fell into a coma after she sustained ‘severe injuries’ following a ‘physical assault’ by female morality police officers on the Tehran metro, according to a human rights group.
Authorities denied that this was a case of state abuse against yet another young woman. The head of the Tehran Metro Operating Company, Masoud Dorosti, said the CCTV footage showed no sign of verbal or physical conflict between passengers or company employees.
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