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Armita Geravand, a teenage girl was hospitalized with serious injuries after allegedly being assaulted by Iran's morality police for not wearing a headscarf in a metro station in Tehran, according to activists. The teenager's parents and Iranian authorities, meanwhile, claim that she was hospitalized because of low blood pressure.
A Kurdish rights organization based in Norway called Hengaw Organization for Human Rights asserted that Geravand was "assaulted" by morality police and has been unconscious since Sunday. She was admitted to the hospital with "brain damage," according to IranWire, another opposition news outlet."
Hengaw claims that Geravand was confronted by female morality police officials who asked her to fix her hijab, resulting in a physical confrontation and Geravand's subsequent collapse. Masoud Dorosti, CEO of Tehran Metro, refuted this claim, claiming that surveillance film didn't capture any physical or verbal incident between Geravand and metro employees.
Geravand entered the metro with other girls, some of whom were not wearing headscarves, according to a video uploaded to the account of the state-affiliated Fars News Agency. The females are seen in the video dragging Geravand out of the train after she appears to have fallen a short while afterward.
The blood pressure was so low that Geravand's parents claimed she passed out and smacked her head on the edge of the metro. They insist that none of the footage they watched showed any indications of an assault.
Since Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who died in detention after being arrested for alleged hijab breaches, and other rallies and charges of police brutality in Iran, have gained notice, this incident has also received media attention.
Geravand is currently receiving treatment at a Tehran hospital, and the circumstances surrounding her hospitalization remain a subject of controversy.
