A teenage girl who was allegedly attacked by Iranian morality police for not wearing a headscarf has died, state media has said.
Armita Geravand, 16, suffered “severe injuries” after an altercation with the so-called Iranian morality police at Shohada station in the Iranian capital Tehran on 1 October, according to human rights organisation Hengaw.
Hengaw said Miss Geravand was dragged off a train, with the incident captured on CCTV.
Her case has been likened to that of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old woman whose death while in the custody of morality police prompted nationwide protests last year.
Previously a statement from the Islamic Republic of Iran News Network had said she was “brain dead”.
Further images from Hengaw appeared to show her in a bed at Fajr Hospital.
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