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In this picture from surveillance video aired by Iranian state tv, girls pull 16-year-old Armita Geravand from a prepare automotive on the Tehran Metro in Tehran, Iran, October 1, 2023. (Iranian state tv)
The despotic enforcers of Iran’s “hijab regulation” have claimed one other sufferer within the identify of faith. In a mysterious incident reported a number of weeks in the past in worldwide press, a younger lady Armita Geravand, simply 16 was injured going into the Tehran Metro in Iran. She was in a coma for a number of weeks and has since died. Her loss of life takes place a 12 months after the loss of life of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini which unleashed a flurry of protests in Iran: Mahsa was taken into custody, sustained accidents in some type of mysterious approach, after which died within the fingers of the police not lengthy after. Same story.
A teenage Iranian lady who fell right into a coma after she was allegedly assaulted by the nation’s morality police for not carrying a scarf has died, based on Iranian state media.
Women who defy Iran’s necessary headscarf-wearing, or hijab, regulation is a transparent signal that they’re sad with the Iranian regime. Iran is a theocracy that disappears environmental activists, whistleblowers, journalists (one we interviewed was later disappeared) and individuals who follow homosexuality. You will even go to jail should you dance in an Instagram or TikTok video in Iran. Or should you try to save lakes, like the protestors working to save Lake Urmia from dying up.
Iran drafted a Hijab and Chastity Bill—which is a draft regulation consisting of 70 articles—all which might enhance punishments for these seen carrying a “western” costume code, and which challenges the ethics put in place by the Islamic Republic. Increased fines and jail time, and AI cameras to catch the violators is a part of the Morality Police code of instruments.
Armita Geravand
What occurred to Geravand when she entered the prepare on October 1 stays an enormous query. A pal informed an area TV station that she hit her head on the platform, however soundless footage gives no clues and it’s seemingly that those that really know are afraid of being silenced with a gun –– the identical “silencing” that may occur to you in Gaza if you don’t adjust to the Hamas code, which is rule of the jungle.
TIME gives an awesome background on the regulation and the way it may be enforced in Iran.
According to the Norway-based human rights group Hengaw which interviewed her two pals, Geravand was assaulted by the morality police for not carrying a head protecting. She fell and hit her head and was admitted into the hospital with “extreme mind accidents”. The Iranian regime have denied any bodily confrontation came about. They stated she fainted from low blood strain, an analogous stance taken after Mahsa Amini was murdered for a similar offence.
Iran has a factor for policing modesty. If you’re a lady in Iran your life could be a nightmare should you select to not put on the Muslim traditional head-covering called the hijab. You may go to jail (for 20 years) for dancing on social media.
Iran has a repute for evaporating folks, or for whisking them away and brainwashing them till they lose part of themselves just like the Godfather of running a blog Hossein Derakhshan we interviewed previously –– or Soheil Arabi who was sentenced to death for his Facebook posts.
What the footage did catch is Geravand’s limp physique being carried away. Now she is lifeless for wanting her her free hair to blow within the wind.
This video exhibits why
#ArmitaGaravand, Iranian schoolgirl received crushed by hijab police & killed.
Cameras are all over the place to determine & arrest unveiled girls. But see how bravely she was strolling unveiled to indicate her resistance to compelled hijab.
She’s a hero.— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) October 28, 2023
Iranian journalist activist Masih Alinejad writes on X: “This regime excels at suppressing and killing girls, all whereas negotiating and forging ties with Western politicians. How many extra harmless ladies have to perish earlier than Western nations understand that this regime is irredeemable?
“This is the very regime that not solely oppresses its residents but in addition instigates unrest in Ukraine, Israel, Iraq, and Syria. After many years of atrocities by this totalitarian Islamic regime, the world should lastly take a stand and maintain them accountable.”
More on Iran’s modesty police:
Skater Niloufar Mardani threatened for not wearing head covering
Spend 20 years in prison if you dance in public in Iran
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