The death of Armita Geravand, 16, comes after spending weeks in a coma following an incident on a train when she was not wearing a headscarf.
An Iranian teenage girl injured weeks ago in a mysterious incident on Tehran’s Metro while not wearing a headscarf has died, state media reported.
It added: “As long as the Iranian government enforces its draconian mandatory hijab law, the lives of girls and women in Iran will hang in the balance, vulnerable to severe rights violations, including violence and even death.”Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported Geravand’s death, without noting the wider unrest surrounding the headscarf law. Geravand suffered her injury at the Meydan-E Shohada, or Martyrs’ Square, Metro station in southern Tehran.
Geravand’s parents appeared in state media footage saying a blood pressure issue, a fall or perhaps both contributed to their daughter’s injury. The Hengaw Organisation for Human Rights, which reports on abuses in Iran’s western Kurdish region and earlier published a photograph of Geravand in a coma, renewed its calls on Saturday for an independent international investigation citing “the practice of the Islamic Republic in concealing the truth”.
On Saturday, US Deputy Special Envoy for Iran Abram Paley wrote online that he was mourning Geravand’s death.
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