The pro-Kurdish human rights organization Hengaw originally reported on Armita Garavand's health on October 3 and claimed that the 16-year-old had suffered significant injuries in a subway accident. The event occurred barely over a year after Mahsa Amini, an Iranian Kurdish lady, died and allegedly violated Iran's rigorous clothing code for women. In the Islamic Republic, protests in large numbers followed her murder.
It "seems certain" that Garavand is "brain dead," according to a statement made by the government-affiliated Borna news agency.
Her condition reportedly worsened on October 11. Garavand collapsed as a result of low blood pressure, according to the official news agency IRNA.
She apparently violated the tight clothing code for Iranian women, according to human rights group Hengaw, and was hurt during a dispute with policewomen on the metro. Garavand, who now resides in Tehran, is originally from Kermanshah, a Kurdish-populated city in western Iran that is around 500 kilometers away from Tehran. Garavand's situation has garnered attention in the West, with Germany and the US expressing worry over the case after a purported video of the incident spread on social media.
Police officers forced the girl inside a subway vehicle even though she was with pals and didn't appear to be covering her head. The metro's director in Tehran denied that the teenager and customers or workers had engaged in physical or verbal combat. /BGNES
Tehran, Iran