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General Category => World News => Topic started by: rangerrebew on October 29, 2023, 05:20:19 pm
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Iranian teen allegedly attacked by morality police for not wearing a hijab dies
Armita Geravand’s death comes after her being in a coma for weeks and threatens to reignite popular anger, protests over Iran’s mandatory headscarf law for women
By JON GAMBRELL
28 October 2023, 11:19 am 5
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.
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 October 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.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-teen-allegedly-attacked-by-morality-police-for-not-wearing-a-hijab-dies/