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Iran: activists say 16-year-old girl hospitalised by police over hijab rules
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The hospitalisation of a 16-year-old girl in Tehran has led to accusations by a rights group and activists that she was beaten into a coma by Iran’s feared “morality police”, putting the country back on edge a year after mass protests erupted over the treatment of women.
According to Hengaw, an exiled human rights organisation, Armita Garawand sustained a “severe physical assault” by the “morality police” for not complying with national rules on the hijab.
State-run media, which published the edited footage, claimed the girl had instead fainted after a drop in blood pressure, leading her to hit the side of the train carriage.
Iranian authorities have published forced interviews with family members in the past, leading to accusations online that Armita’s parents were coerced into speaking.
The incident, and the conflicting explanations, have drawn close parallels to the events that preceded the death of a Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, who had been arrested for not complying with hijab rules.
On social media it has been claimed that history is repeating itself and that Iranian officials are involved in a fabricated story, similar to the alleged cover-up after Amini’s death.
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