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Iran urged to release full CCTV of what led to teenage girl’s coma
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/05/armita-geravand-iran-cctv
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Iranian opposition figures have demanded the release of complete CCTV footage of an incident in which a 16-year-old girl, now in a coma, collapsed after a claimed encounter with hijab police on the Tehran metro.
Authorities have released footage that they say substantiates their claim that Armita fainted due to a drop in blood pressure, but witnesses and rights groups abroad allege that she fell during a confrontation with agents because she was not wearing the hijab.
CCTV footage shared by the state news agency IRNA showed Armita without a hijab accompanied by two female friends walking towards the train from the metro platform.
Rights groups fear that Armita might face the same fate as Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman whose death in a coma last year in the custody of morality police sparked months of nationwide protest.
Narges Mohammadi, a women’s rights activist serving a 10-year jail sentence in Evin prison in Tehran, said on Instagram that the “government’s behaviour shows its desperate attempt to prevent the truth … from being revealed”.
The case has begun to draw international attention, including from the German foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, who tweeted: “Once again a young woman in #Iran is fighting for her life.
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