Teen Girl Armita Geravand in Critical Condition After Assault by Iran’s Regime Morality Police
The Iranian regime’s morality police has assaulted a 16-year-old girl for not abiding by the regime’s misogynistic hijab rules, according to reports from inside Iran.
Armita Geravand, who hails from Kermanshah, was attacked by the morality police in Tehran on Sunday, and is now in a state of coma in the Fajr hospital. She is being kept under strict security conditions and regime authorities have banned all visits, including from her family.
There is currently a heavy presence of security forces at the Fajr hospital, which is controlled by the regime’s air force.
Security forces even arrested a journalist from the regime’s own state-run media who had visited the hospital to write a news report about the incident.
Instead, state-run media published verbatim reports claiming that Armita Geravand was not assaulted by the morality police and she lost consciousness from low blood pressure. The regime released doctored video footage from the metro security cameras that only show Armita Geravand being carried away while being unconscious.
But local reports indicate that regime agents pushed her and her head hit a metal bar, after which she became unconscious.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), called on the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women to inquire about Armita Geravand’s conditions and dispatch a representative to visit her before it becomes too late. “It is crucial to investigate her situation thoroughly,” she said.
The incident is reminiscent of the murder of Mahsa Jina Amini in September 2022. Amini, 22, was arrested by the regime’s morality police in Tehran on charges of not abiding by the hijab rules. She was beaten and taken to a detention center, where she lost consciousness from concussion. She died in Tehran’s Kasra hospital from her injuries.
Amini’s death triggered protests that quickly turned into nationwide protests that called for the overthrow of the regime in its entirety. The uprising lasted for several months despite brutal repressive measures by the regime. Security forces murdered at least 750 protesters and arrested 30,000 others. Regime authorities executed four youth in relation to the protesters and gave death sentences to several others.
However, the regime knows that public hatred for the mullahs’ rule runs deep after more than four decades of repression and corruption, and it only takes another spark for another nationwide uprising to take shape.
Originally published at https://english.mojahedin.org on October 4, 2023.
