2023-10-28 12:46:00
Women remove the body of Armita Geravand from a Tehran metro car, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Iran State Television, File)
An Iranian teenager who was injured a few weeks ago in a mysterious incident in the Tehran subway when she was not wearing a headscarf has died, Iran’s state media reported on Saturday.
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Armita Geravand’s death came following spending weeks in a coma in the capital and following the first anniversary of Masha Amini’s death, which sparked major protests across the country.
Iran’s state news agency, IRNA, reported the death.
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What happened during the seconds following Armita Geravand entered a train on October 1 remains unknown.
Although a friend told Iranian state television that she had hit her head on the station platform, in the soundless images broadcast by the channel from outside the car there is a person in front. A few seconds later, they take the inert body to another place.
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Geravand’s parents appeared in state media saying that a blood pressure problem, a fall or perhaps both contributed to their daughter’s accident.
Activists abroad have alleged that Geravand may have been pushed or attacked because she was not wearing a hijab. They demanded an independent investigation by the United Nations fact-finding mission on Iran, alleging that the theocracy puts pressure on victims’ families and that state television has a history of broadcasting hundreds of coerced confessions.
A protest in London once morest the aggression of Armita Geravand. VELAR GRANT / ZUMA PRESS / CONTACTOPHOTO
Regarding the Masha Amini case, two Iranian journalists arrested for reporting on her death, which sparked protests across the country last year, were sentenced to up to seven years in prison.
Amini’s death in custody on September 16, 2022 following her arrest by morality police in Tehran for an alleged violation of Iran’s strict dress rules for women sparked massive protests across the country.
Journalists Elaheh Mohammadi and Niloufar Hamedi were found guilty of collaboration with the United States, conspiracy once morest state security and propaganda once morest the Islamic Republic, according to the judicial website Mizan Online.
Mohammadi, 36, was sentenced to six years in prison for collaboration with the United States and Hamedi, 31, received a seven-year sentence for the same crime, Mizan said.
The two also received sentences of five years each for conspiracy charges and one for propaganda, the website said, adding that the sentences would be served concurrently.
Mohammadi, a reporter for the Ham Mihan newspaper, and Hamedi, a photographer for the Shargh newspaper, have been held in Tehran’s Evin Prison since September 2022, and their trials began in May.
The sentence once morest them is subject to appeal, Mizan added.
The ruling follows Tuesday’s sentencing of Amini’s lawyer, Saleh Nikbakht, to a year in prison for anti-state propaganda and speaking to local and foreign media regarding the case.
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