Armita Garavand died this Saturday after spending 28 days in a coma after an alleged altercation with authorities over Do not wear the Islamic veil on the subway from Tehran, as reported by the state agency ‘IRNA’.

The Iranian authorities have defended that the 16-year-old girl hit her head after suffering a drop in tension in the capital’s metro. However, human rights groups have reported that she was attacked for not covering herself with the mandatory Islamic veil. “Unfortunately, the brain damage caused her to go into a coma and she died a few minutes ago,” ‘IRNA’ indicated.

In this sense, the state agency has stated that the young woman received “extensive medical treatment during her 28 days of hospitalization in a special care unit.” Once again, he repeated the official version that Garavand suffered a drop in blood pressure on October 1 when he was entering a subway car, fell to the ground and hit his head, which caused cardiac arrest and decreased cerebral oxygenation. and edema in the brain.

Security images released by ‘IRNA’ show how Garavand and two friends enter one of the capital’s metro cars and then two of them leave carrying the third, a video that the authorities have used to demonstrate that no attack occurred. . Amnesty International, however, stated that the video has been manipulated with the acceleration of frames in four sections and there are lapses of more than three minutes in the recording made public.

Along the same lines, the Kurdish human rights organization Hengaw, based in Oslo, has denounced that The young woman was attacked for not wearing the Islamic veilmandatory in the country since 1983.

A case similar to that of Mahsa Amini

The case is similar to that of the young Mahsa Amini, who died a little over a year ago after being detained by the so-called ‘Moral Police’ for not wearing the Islamic veil properly, a death that the authorities attributed to natural causes. His death sparked strong protests that for months called for the end of the Islamic Republic and only disappeared after a repression that caused 500 deaths, the arrest of at least 22,000 people and in which seven protesters were executed, one of them in public.

The first anniversary of Amini’s death was commemorated on September 16 amid strong repression and a huge deployment of security forces, and only timid protests took place. In recent months, the Iranian Government has been trying to reimpose the use of the veil, with the presence of patrols in the streets, the denial of services and the approval of a law that toughens punishments for not covering one’s hair.