2023-10-28 08:02:38
A 16-year-old Iranian girl has died following an alleged confrontation with the notorious morality police. The student Armita Geravand died on Saturday in a clinic in the capital Tehran, the state news agency IRNA reported. The young woman was declared brain dead around a week ago. The case caused widespread outrage far beyond Iran’s borders.
According to reports from human rights activists, the young woman was confronted by moral guards on a subway regarding a month ago because she was not wearing a headscarf. State media denied violence by the moral police. Geravand fell and hit his head due to low blood pressure, the official statement said. The 16-year-old had been in a coma for weeks.
Geravand’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.
The Iranian government responded to the numerous headscarf violations with, among other things, penal reform. The latest version of the new headscarf law, which has not yet come into force, provides for harsh penalties for violating Islamic clothing rules. These include fines for multiple violations. In extreme cases, up to 15 years in prison and the equivalent of a fine of more than 5,000 euros can be imposed.
The notorious Iranian moral guardians are repeatedly exposed to harsh criticism, including from the middle of society. During the wave of protests in autumn 2022, the units initially disappeared from the street scene before the return of the moral police was announced in mid-July. The headscarf requirement has been the law for more than 40 years in the country, which now has a population of almost 90 million. Duty is considered one of the ideological pillars of the Islamic Republic.
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