People who speak out for people’s rights say that Iran’s police who enforce moral rules beat up a girl because she was not wearing a hijab, and they shared a picture that supposedly shows her in a deep unconscious state.
Armita Geravand, a 16-year-old, fell down and lost consciousness while getting onto a train in Tehran at Shohada station on Sunday.
Officials said that she suddenly lost consciousness and they shared a video from the security cameras showing her being taken out of the train while she was still unconscious.
According to Hengaw, a human rights organization, they claim that she was badly hurt by police officers because of her actions.
It said Armita was getting treatment at a hospital in Tehran called Fajr. There was a lot of security around her, and all the phones belonging to her family were taken away.
On Monday, the police briefly arrested a woman journalist who works for Sharq newspaper. She had gone to the hospital to write a story about a certain incident.
Hengaw, an organization that works with the Kurdish people in Iran, announced on Tuesday that Armita lived in Tehran but was originally from Kermanshah, a place in Iran where many Kurds live.
She was hurt by the police at Shohada station. “Because they thought someone wasn’t wearing the required ‘hijab,'” the statement said. She got really hurt and had to go to the hospital.
Two well-known rights advocates told Reuters news agency that they came into conflict with government agents who were enforcing a very strict dress code.
On Tuesday night, Hengaw shared a photo on X (previously known as Twitter), claiming it was a picture of Armita being unconscious in the hospital.
The BBC couldn’t confirm if the picture is real, but it shows a girl with short hair lying down on a bed. She has a bandage on her head and seems to be connected to a tube for breathing.
The rights group also said it had found out that Armita’s parents were interviewed by the state news agency, Irna, “with important security officers there, and they were feeling a lot of pressure at Fajr Hospital”.
Irna said that Armita’s mother confirmed they watched the CCTV footage and agreed that what occurred on Sunday was an unintentional event.
“I believe my daughter’s blood pressure went down, but I’m not completely certain. I think the doctors mentioned that her pressure dropped,” her mom says in a video posted by Irna, which has been edited extensively.
The director of the Tehran subway, Masood Dorosti, said that there was no argument or problem between Armita and other passengers or subway staff.
There are some gossip going around about a conflict with metro officers. He said that the claim is false and the CCTV footage proves it.
The video shows Armita, without her hair covered, walking onto a train with two other girls at the platform.
Just a little while later, one of the girls leaves the train and bends down.
She and other people picked up Armita, who was not awake, and put her down on the platform.
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