At the beginning of this month, a new incident of violence against women was recorded in Iran, which has led to rejection among part of the population.

Security footage released by the official IRNA agency shows Armita Gaavand, 16, and two friends entering one of Tehran’s subways and then leaving two of them with the third.

This Sunday, Iranian media reported that the young woman was hospitalized in a coma after the alleged altercation with authorities for not wearing the Islamic veil in the subway and is on the verge of brain death.

Mahsa Amini died of multiple organ failure caused by brain hypoxia, according to Iranian forensic authorities

“Unfortunately, Armita Gaavand’s health condition is not promising and her brain death seems certain, despite the efforts of the medical staff,” media outlets such as IRNA and Tasnim reported.

IRNA assured that the young woman fainted due to a power outage, which caused her to fall and hit her head on the ground.

Regarding the video, Amnesty International pointed out that it had been manipulated and the frames had been sped up, and there were periods of more than three minutes.

The event is reminiscent of what happened to Mahsa Amini, who died after being arrested by the Moral Police for not wearing the Islamic veil, a death that authorities attributed to natural causes.

His death sparked intense protests that called for the end of the Islamic Republic for months and only subsided after a crackdown that left 500 dead, arrested at least 22,000 people and saw the execution of seven demonstrators, one of them in public.

The first anniversary of Amini’s death was commemorated on September 16, amid heavy repression and a massive deployment of security forces, with only muted protests taking place.

In recent months, the Iranian government has tried to reintroduce the use of the veil, with the presence of patrols on the streets, the denial of services and the passage of a law increasing penalties for not covering one’s hair.

The revelation of Armita Gaavand’s almost certain brain death coincides with an Iranian revolutionary court’s decision to sentence journalists Nilufar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi, who exposed Mahsa Amini’s case, to 13 and 12 years in prison respectively collaboration with the “hostile” government of the United States, and two other crimes. (JO)