Women’s rights in Iran
After incident with moral police: Young Iranian woman buried
Images from a surveillance camera document the Iranian morality police’s brutal treatment of Armita Garawand – state media blame low blood pressure for the young woman’s supposedly fatal fall. photo
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“Armita, farewell”: About a month ago, the teenager fell and fell into a coma – presumably after a confrontation with Iran’s moral police. State media propagates a different version.
Garawand fell and fell into a coma about a month ago after an alleged confrontation with Islamic moral guardians.
Videos on social media showed people dressed in black gathering at the Behesht-e Sahra central cemetery in southern Tehran, screaming and crying in grief at the grave. “Dear Armita, farewell,” a man shouts in a video.
Dark memories of the Amini case
The young woman is said to have been confronted by moral police on a subway at the beginning of October because she was not wearing a headscarf. State media denied violence by the moral watchdogs. The official explanation is that Garawand fell and hit his head because of low blood pressure.
There are different information about her age. According to state media, Garawand was 16 years old, while some media and activists reported the age as 17.
Garawand’s fate reminds many Iranians of the case of the young Iranian Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by moral watchdogs in the fall of 2022 because of an allegedly ill-fitting headscarf. Amini fell into a coma and died.
Her death sparked the worst protests in decades last year. Since then, many women have demonstratively ignored the obligation to wear a headscarf.
Report at Irna Report at Eslahatnews