Iranian teenager pronounced brain dead after encounter with police
Three weeks after allegedly being attacked by Iran's Morality Police for breaking hijab laws, teenager Armita Geravand has been declared brain dead by medical professionals.
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In early October, 16-year-old Armita Geravand was carried unconcious from a Tehran subway car. Though Iranian news channels continue to assert that Geravand fainted due to low blood pressure, human rights groups and Western governments believe Geravand was attacked by Iran's Morality Police for violating the country's hijab policy.
While footage showing her unconscious body being carried from the train car has been widely circulated, Iran has offered no videos of her collapse onboard the train. Regardless of the cause, Geravand suffered severe brain damage and has been in a coma since October 4th.
A part of the Kurdish minority in Iran, Armita Geravand was born in the western part of the country before moving to the capital. Her brutal injuries come 13 months after the death of another Kurdish woman, Jina Mahsa Amini, who died in Morality Police custody after being arrested for violating the same hijab law.
