Activists demand UN probe into alleged police attack on 16-year-old girl in Tehran
In this image from surveillance video aired by Iranian state television, women pull 16-year-old Armita Geravand from a train car on the Tehran Metro in Tehran, Iran, October 1, 2023
ACTIVISTS are calling for a UN investigation into an alleged attack by Iran’s morality police on a teenage girl, leaving her in a coma.
Foreign-based rights campaigns like Norway’s Hengaw Organisation say witnesses reported Armita Geravand being beaten for not wearing a headscarf.
IranWire says she is currently in hospital with head trauma.
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