The regime in Tehran is putting pressure and threats on the teachers and classmates of Armita Geravand, the sixteen-year-old who has been hospitalized since Sunday in a coma at Fajr hospital due to a head injury suffered, according to NGOs, in an argument over the veil with the police morale in a subway station. This was reported by the exile media IranWire. According to Iranian educators, the director of security at the Ministry of Education went to Armita’s school and warned against spreading any news or photos of the young girl on social media, “under penalty of heavy fines and the immediate termination of their contracts.”
Armita in a coma in Iran, the regime fears the new Mahsa – Intubated, a head wound covered by a large plaster, her eyes closed, the drip on her abandoned left arm. It is the photo of Armita Geravand, 16 years old, in a coma after the beating by the morality police in the Tehran subway because she was not wearing the Islamic headscarf. The snapshot, taken in the intensive care unit of the Fajr hospital in the Iranian capital, was released by the Kurdish human rights group Hengaw Organization for Human Rights and bounced around sites and social networks with the speed of the internet: a possible fuse for a new wave of protests like those that shook Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini, arrested because she did not wear the hijab according to the standards of the ayatollahs and ‘mysteriously’ died after three days in a coma.
It was the same association that denounced the “serious physical assault” suffered by Armita after a video circulated on social media showing a girl being carried out of a carriage by some women in black chadors and placed on the ground, motionless. Version denied, as in the case of Mahsa, at an official level. State media – which according to the NGO published the edited video – reported that the young woman instead fainted after a drop in blood pressure that caused her to hit the wall of the train carriage.
Video Iran, 16 year old beaten by morality police for not wearing a veil
And the official Fars news agency published an interview with the girl’s parents in which they say she was not attacked. “We checked all the videos and it proved to us that it was an accident,” the father said. A technique tested by the guardians of Orthodoxy which, however, in recent months has not prevented either the circulation of news or the revolts that have shaken the regime. So this time, to be more convincing, the security agents – Hengaw reports – seized the mobile phones of the young woman’s relatives. Not only. Journalist Samira Rahi, Iranwire claims, shared a photo showing the deployment of police forces outside the hospital. “Two police cars are positioned at the entrance to the emergency room of the Fajr hospital and the presence of plainclothes officers is evident,” she wrote on X lei citing an informed source. The journalist also reported that “security forces inspected vehicles passing through the area and, in some cases, carefully examined the contents of passengers’ cell phones.” Plainclothes officers were also present in the intensive care unit where Armita has been hospitalized since Sunday evening. Another journalist, Maryam Lotfi, who works for the Shargh newspaper, was arrested after managing to enter the hospital where Armita is being held. Over 90 journalists were targeted by the Iranian authorities during the demonstrations triggered by Mahsa’s death. The best known, Niloufar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi, who followed Mahsa’s case, are still in prison on charges of conspiracy against national security. But in highly armored Iran the news circulates anyway. And the fuse of revolt is already lit.
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2023-10-05 13:47:00
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