JINA MAHSA AMINI
The face of Iran's protests. Her life, her dreams and her death.
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Iranwire - 3 Nov 2023
<<UN Experts <Shocked> by Attacks on Women, Girls in Iran
A group of UN experts has expressed <shock> over the death of Armita Geravand, a 16-year-old Iranian girl who was hospitalized after collapsing on a subway in Tehran last month following an altercation about failing to wear a headscarf. In a statement on November 2, the eight experts called for an <independent, prompt and impartial> investigation into Armita's death and said that women and girls “should not be punished for wearing or not wearing any specific piece of clothing, and should certainly not be at risk of losing their lives for doing so.>
....
<We are aware of reprisals against other women, including celebrities, for refusing to comply with the mandatory dress code,> the statement said, adding that some women <have lost their jobs or been sentenced to jail, while others have been ordered to perform forced labour.> The experts urged the authorities to amend the constitution, repeal gender discriminatory laws and “abolish all regulations and procedures whereby women's dress or behaviour in public or private life are monitored or controlled by State authorities, and introduce laws and policies to ensure full equality for women and girls in public affairs.> >>
Read more here:
https://iranwire.com/en/women/122172-un-experts-shocked-by-attacks-on-women-girls-in-iran/ 

Iranwire - 3 Nov 2023
<<HRW Calls for Probe into Death of Teenage Girl in Iran
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for an independent investigation to shed light on the recent death of a 16-year-old Iranian girl said to have been assaulted at a Tehran metro station for not wearing a mandatory headscarf. Armita Geravand fell, unconscious, on the platform of a Tehran metro station on October 1. She was taken to a hospital where she remained in a coma for 28 days. The authorities said the high school student had fallen and injured her head after suffering a sudden drop in blood pressure, but reports strongly suggest that she was physically assaulted by a hijab enforcement officer. During Armita's October 29 burial, authorities assaulted mourners and arrested dozens of people, including prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh. Security forces have prevented Armita's family and friends from speaking to the media, while journalists have faced reprisals for reporting on the teenager's situation. On October 28, the semi-official Fars news agency reported that prosecutors had charged journalists Milad Alavi and Sara Masoumi, as well as political commentator Sadegh Ziba Kalam, <for claiming Geravand was assaulted.> In a statement on November 2, Michael Page, deputy director in the Middle East and North Africa division at HRW, called on governments across the world to <press Iranian authorities to allow investigators, human rights defenders, and journalists to speak to witnesses of abuses directly without fear of reprisals.> He said that the authorities have <repeatedly made false claims to cover up serious abuses,> adding that Iran's official news outlets <have a long history of parading critics of the government and their family members on national TV, where they are forced to make so-called 'confessions' or public statements.> >>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/women/122162-hrw-calls-for-probe-into-death-of-teenage-girl-in-iran/

Narges Mohammadi "Victory is certain"
Iranwire - 1 Nov 2023
<Victory is Certain,> Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Winner Says
In a message smuggled out of her cell in Tehran, Nobel Peace Prize winner and women's rights activist Narges Mohammadi said that transitioning away from Iran's <religious authoritarian regime> to a more democratic, equalitarian and freer political system is an <unstoppable process.>
Mohammadi's 17-year-old daughter, Kiana Rahmani, read out the message nearly a month after the imprisoned activist was awarded the Nobel prize for her fight against the <oppression of women in Iran> and for her efforts to promote <human rights and freedom for all.> The 51-year-old activist once again criticized the Islamic Republic's strict dress code for women, saying that <the compulsory hijab is a means of control and repression imposed on the society and on which the continuation and survival of this authoritarian religious regime depends.> She condemned <a regime that has institutionalized deprivation and poverty in society for 45 years,> and said that it was <built on lies, deception, cunning and intimidation.> Mohammadi, whose family took refuge in France, has been arrested 13 times, convicted five times, and sentenced to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes for her activism. Incarcerated in Tehran's Evin prison following her latest arrest in 2021, she has been one of the women spearheading the <Woman, Life, Freedom> uprising in Iran. The protest movement, which has seen many Iranian women and girls take off their hijab, cut their hair and rally in the streets, was sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in September last year after she was arrested for allegedly wearing a headscarf improperly. The monthslong demonstrations waned earlier this year following a deadly state crackdown in which hundreds of people were killed and thousands were unlawfully arrested. However, many Iranian women and girls continue to refuse to wear a mandatory headscarf, in a direct challenge to the country's clerical rulers. <We, the people of Iran, demand democracy, freedom, human rights, and equality, and the Islamic Republic is the main obstacle in the way of realizing these national demands,> Mohammadi said in her message. <We... are struggling to transition away from this religious authoritarian regime through solidarity and drawing on the power of a non-violent and unstoppable process in order to revive the honor and pride of Iran and human dignity and prestige for its people,> she continued. <Victory is not easy, but it is certain,> the activist concluded.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/women/122115-victory-is-certain-jailed-iranian-nobel-peace-prize-winner-says/

Iranwire - 3 Nov 2023
<<HRW Calls for Probe into Death of Teenage Girl in Iran
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for an independent investigation to shed light on the recent death of a 16-year-old Iranian girl said to have been assaulted at a Tehran metro station for not wearing a mandatory headscarf. Armita Geravand fell, unconscious, on the platform of a Tehran metro station on October 1. She was taken to a hospital where she remained in a coma for 28 days. The authorities said the high school student had fallen and injured her head after suffering a sudden drop in blood pressure, but reports strongly suggest that she was physically assaulted by a hijab enforcement officer. During Armita's October 29 burial, authorities assaulted mourners and arrested dozens of people, including prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh. Security forces have prevented Armita's family and friends from speaking to the media, while journalists have faced reprisals for reporting on the teenager's situation. On October 28, the semi-official Fars news agency reported that prosecutors had charged journalists Milad Alavi and Sara Masoumi, as well as political commentator Sadegh Ziba Kalam, <for claiming Geravand was assaulted.> In a statement on November 2, Michael Page, deputy director in the Middle East and North Africa division at HRW, called on governments across the world to <press Iranian authorities to allow investigators, human rights defenders, and journalists to speak to witnesses of abuses directly without fear of reprisals.> He said that the authorities have <repeatedly made false claims to cover up serious abuses,> adding that Iran's official news outlets <have a long history of parading critics of the government and their family members on national TV, where they are forced to make so-called 'confessions' or public statements.> >>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/women/122162-hrw-calls-for-probe-into-death-of-teenage-girl-in-iran/


Nasrin Sotoudeh
Center for Human Rights in Iran - Oct 30 2023
<<Prominent Lawyer and Activists Beaten, Detained at Funeral of Teenager Armita Geravand
October 30, 2023 - Following the beating and arrest of peaceful activists detained at the funeral yesterday of Armita Geravand, a 16-year-old who died last week after a reported violent assault by the Iranian government's forced-hijab enforcers, the international community must urgently demand the immediate release of all those detained, as well as accountability for this outrageous violence. Among those detained is human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who was severely beaten by Islamic Republic agents during the arrest, and who is at risk of re-imprisonment on a prison sentence issued against her in 2019 on sham charges. She is currently in Qarchak Prison in Tehran Province, where she has started a hunger strike while also refusing to take her medications until she is freed. <Nasrin herself confirmed that she had been severely beaten and, during a very short phone call last night, asked me to bring her glasses,> Nasrin's husband Reza Khandan, an activist in Iran who is also at risk of being detained for speaking publicly on the case, told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). <I understood that the beatings were to the head and face, and her glasses had been broken,> Khandan said. <But I couldn't speak to her for long and didn't fully understand the extent of her injuries and any other harm,> he said, speaking publicly on the case despite the serious danger of arrest he faces for speaking out. <My wife currently has an open case and is on medical leave [from prison]. I highly suspect they might revoke her medical leave and force her to go back to prison. We are very concerned about this,> said Khandan. The Fars News Agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), accused Sotoudeh of <violating hijab rules> and claimed she would be charged with <acting against the psychological security of society,> which does not exist as a charge in Iran's penal code. Manzar Zarabi, whose four family members were killed in 2020 in Iran when the Revolutionary Guards downed a passenger plane that year, as well as teachers' rights activist Masoud Zeinalzadeh, are among dozens of activists who were detained while peacefully attending Geravand's funeral. <Beating and arresting unarmed civilians for peacefully mourning yet another death of a young girl in state custody is a continuation of the atrocities the Iranian government is continuously inflicting upon the Iranian people,> said CHRI Executive Director Hadi Ghaemi. <Governments should summon Iranian ambassadors to voice their outrage and join together to politically and economically isolate the Iranian government while these crimes continue,> Ghaemi added. CHRI can confirm that Zarabi and Sotoudeh were detained for more than two hours in a state security car outside the Shahid Moghadas state security court in Evin Prison in Tehran because the women refused to be comply with the Islamic Republic's forced hijab laws. CHRI can confirm they were then transported to Qarchak Prison for Women, where Sotoudeh remains and where Zarabi was released after becoming severely ill. The previous night the women and several other detainees were held in the Vozara Detention Centre in Tehran, where Mahsa Jina Amini was taken before dying three days later due to reported beatings while in state custody. <The international community must demand that Iranian authorities cease their blatant violations of the right to mourn, and the UN's independent Fact-Finding Mission on Iran must initiate an investigation into Geravand's death,” Ghaemi said. <These activists were at the funeral because Iranian authorities operate with impunity, killing and detaining people including teenagers for entirely peaceful actions, like showing their hair in public, or raising their voices to demand fundamental rights,> he added. <The international community must come together to hold Iranian officials accountable for their severe ongoing rights violations and violence against peaceful activists,> he said.>>
Source:
https://iranhumanrights.org/2023/10/nasrin-sotoudeh-and-activists-beaten-detained-at-funeral-of-teenager-armita-geravand/

Iranwire - 30 Oct 2023
<<Iranian Actress Summoned for Supporting Family of Teen Who Died after Hijab Assault
The Iranian judiciary has summoned renowned actress Haniyeh Tawasoli after she expressed sympathy for the family of a 16-year-old girl fatally injured in an alleged confrontation over a head-scarf violation. Tawasoli shared two court summons on her Instagram account on October 30 with the caption, <Two courts. These are the days I face, hoping for better ones.> The actress is required to appear in Branch 26 of Tehran Revolutionary Court on November 6 over her Instagram posts expressing sympathy for Armita Geravand's relatives. Armita fell into a coma on October 1 after being assaulted at a Tehran metro station for not wearing a headscarf. She died at the weekend. Tawasoli received another summons instructing her to appear in Branch 9 of the Tehran Culture and Media Prosecutor's Office within five days over accusations of <publishing false information and unverified material.> Earlier reports said that Tawasoli was among seven celebrities and journalists facing court cases initiated by the Tehran prosecutor. The actors mentioned in these reports faced arrests and bans last year in response to their involvement in protests related to the Woman, Life, Freedom movement.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/122046-iranian-actress-summoned-for-supporting-family-of-teen-who-died-after-hijab-assault/

Summoned actresses to court
Jinha - Womens News Agency - 31 Oct 2023
<<Haniyeh Tawasoli summoned by Iran's judiciary
News Center- Iranian actress Haniyeh Tawasoli announced on her Instagram that she received another summons instructing her to appear in Branch 9 of the Tehran Culture and Media Prosecutor's Office within five days for <publishing false information and unverified material> after she expressed sympathy for the family of Armita Geravand. Haniyeh Tawasoli is among seven celebrities and journalists facing legal cases initiated by the Tehran prosecutor. The names of celebrities and journalists facing legal cases are: Hanieh Tavassoli (actress), Taraneh Alidoosti (actress), Mojgan Ilanlou (documentary filmmaker), Hengameh Ghaziani (former actress), Tahmineh Rezaei Milani (filmmaker), Omid Tousheh (journalist), Sahar Valadbeigi (actress) and Maryam Boubani (actress). They are required to appear in Branch 9 of the Tehran Culture and Media Prosecutor's Office within five days.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/l-34081

Iranwire - 30 Oct 2023
<<Arrests Made during Funeral of Iranian Teen Who Died after Hijab Assault
Armita Garavand, a 16-year-old Iranian girl who was fatally assaulted at a Tehran metro station nearly a month ago for not wearing a headscarf, was buried amid tight security on October 29. The number of plainclothes officers and police forces deployed at Tehran's Behesht-e Zahra cemetery outnumbered the mourners, the Hengaw human rights website reported. Two of Armita's relatives and several women were detained by security forces at the cemetery. Civil rights activist Reza Khandan told IranWire that his wife, prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, was among those taken into custody. Armita had been in a coma in Tehran's Fajr Military Hospital since October 1, when she lost consciousness on the city's metro. She died on October 28. The authorities said the teenager had fallen and injured her head after suffering a sudden drop in blood pressure, but reports suggest that she was physically assaulted by a hijab enforcement officer. Footage from inside the train has not been released, despite evidence suggesting that the train car had CCTV cameras>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/122038-arrests-made-during-funeral-of-iranian-teen-who-died-after-hijab-assault/


Narges Mohadammi
Jinha - Womens News Agency - 30 Oct 2023
<<Narges Mohammadi: Our Armita was sent to the brink of death because of her beautiful hair
News Center- 16-year-old Armita Garawand, who was hospitalized after being physically attacked by Iran's morality police officers at Tehran Metro on October 1 for not complying with the compulsory <hijab>, died at Fajr Hospital on Saturday. Her family was not allowed to bury their daughter in her hometown Kermanshah. On Sunday, she was buried in the Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery in Tehran under blockade.
<Armita Geravand was sent to the brink of death because of her beautiful hair>
Narges Mohammadi, Iranian human rights activist and vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC) expressed her condolences on Instagram regarding the death of Armita Geravand.
<Geravand, full of the enthusiasm of life, was sent to the brink of death because of her beautiful hair, which she had no intention of hiding with 'Mandatory Hijab.' No independent reporter was allowed to enter the hospital, only active reporters affiliated with the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting & TV, and the News websites that belonged to the Revolutionary Guard.>
'Her death was announced by the government news agency'
In her post, Narges Mohammadi emphasized that metro camera footage was cut and edited and said, <Families, students, and school teachers came under control. The news of her death was not announced by her family but by the government news agency, and the time of her death was not determined by the signs of the girl's life but by the deceptive policies of the government. The government will also force the location of her burial.
<The news of Armita Geravand's murder, manipulated by security services , concealed under the rubble, filled with deceit, and government lies, was like a small sound amidst many louder voices in the midst of the casualties in the Middle East war. It was a fire that sought to extinguish the flames of Mahsa, Nika, Sarina, Ghazaleh, and others, caused by the religious, dictatorial woman-hating government. <Our Armita Geravand, got killed with more innocence than the innocence of the boys and girls who lost their lives to bullets. The government's security claws hit this <crime> so hard that the <truth> was buried under a mound of threats and government deception. When the <truth> is buried and the defenseless victim, crying out for not <justice> but not even for <pain,> death is the least of human <pain> and <suffering.> Pain is, in reality, the lie, deceit, and deception of the Islamic republic government.> I will never forget the innocent death of Armita Geravand, and I will not Tolerate the <Mandatory Hijab> anymore in her memory.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/narges-mohammadi-our-armita-was-sent-to-the-brink-of-death-because-of-her-beautiful-hair-34069

Iranwire - 30 Oct 2023
<<US <Deeply Saddened> by Iranian Teenager's Death after Hijab Encounter
US national-security advisor Jake Sullivan has spoken of his deep sadness over the death of a 16-year-old Iranian girl who fell into a coma early this month after being assaulted at a Tehran metro station for not wearing a headscarf. <I am deeply saddened to learn that Armita Geravand has died after being beaten by Iran's morality police for not wearing a hijab in public,> Sullivan said on October 29 on the social media platform X. <Iran's state-sponsored violence against its own people is appalling and underscores the fragility of the regime,> he added. German Foreign Minister Baerbock also expressed her dismay at Armita's death and said on X: <The future of Iran is its youth. The future of Iran is its women. The regime cannot suppress their desire for freedom.> Armita was declared brain dead a week ago and died on October 28. She had been in a coma in Tehran's Fajr Military Hospital since October 1 after losing consciousness on the city’s metro. The authorities said Armita had fallen and injured her head after suffering a sudden drop in blood pressure. But reports indicated that the teenager, whose headscarf was draped over her shoulders, was pushed by a woman wearing a full Islamic chador, or head and body covering. Footage from inside the train has not been released, despite evidence suggesting that the train car had CCTV cameras. Armita was buried amid tight security in Tehran on October 29. Civil rights activist Reza Khandan told IranWire that his wife, prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, was among several people detained during the ceremony at the Behesht-e Zahra cemetery. Armita's death came just over a year after the death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini following her arrest for allegedly wearing her headscarf <improperly.> The tragedy triggered protests that spread across the country and rapidly escalated into calls for the overthrow of Iran's four-decade-old Islamic theocracy. Authorities responded with a brutal crackdown in which more than 500 people were killed and over 22,000 others were unlawfully detained, according to activists. The European Union, the United States and other countries have issued multiple rounds of sanctions against the Islamic Republic in recent months over its clampdown on dissent. Sullivan said that the United States <will continue to press for the rights of women and girls, and work with the international community to hold Iran accountable for the violations of the Iranian people's human rights.> >>
Read more here:
https://iranwire.com/en/women/122027-us-deeply-saddened-by-iranian-teenagers-death-after-hijab-encounter/

Burial ceremony of Armita Gevarnand

NCRI - Womens committee - 29 Oct 2023 - in Women's News
<<Armita Geravand Is Laid to Rest Amidst Stringent Security Measures
Armita Geravand was laid to rest Sunday morning, October 29, 2023, in the midst of stringent security measures in Tehran's sprawling Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery with the presence of family members and a large crowd. According to one of Armita's relatives, her family had been <pressured by security forces> to agree to bury her in Tehran. Another relative said, <Although we reside in Tehran, we do not bury our deceased in Tehran.> The number of plainclothes agents and State Security forces stationed in section 99 of Behesht-e Zahra exceeded the number of participants in the burial ceremony of Armita Geravand. Two relatives and several unidentified women were detained by the security forces. The Coordination Council of Iranian Teachers' Associations reports that Mohammad Geravand, one of Armita's acquaintances and a dismissed te
acher, is among the detainees.
Published images show that security forces erected metal barriers around the burial site, preventing people from getting close to Armita's grave. In videos released from the burial ceremony of Armita Geravand, some of the attendees are chanting, <This perished flower is a gift to the homeland.>
Armita Geravand Was Laid to Rest Amidst Stringent Security Measures
Iranians chant from the rooftops to express their protest to the killing of Armita Geravand. Nighttime protests erupted in various cities across Iran, including Tehran, Karaj, and Shiraz, on the evening of Sunday, October 28, 2023, following the news of Armita Geravand's death. People in several areas of Tehran expressed their protest with slogans such as <Armita Geravand, your path continues.> Protesters in Tehran's Saadat Abad district chanted, <Death to the child-killing regime> and <I will kill, anyone who killed my sister> from inside homes and residential towers. Other slogans included <Death to the Islamic Republic,> <Death to Khamenei the oppressor,> <Death to the principle of Velayat-e Faqih,> and <Khamenei the oppressor, we will bury you,> among other nighttime protest slogans in Saadat Abad. The Ekbatan Township, in western Tehran, a hub of anti-regime protests during the 2022 Iran protests, saw renewed protests. The protesters chanted slogans such as <Death to the child-killing regime> and <Death to the dictator.> Nighttime slogans were also heard in the Chitgar district in western Tehran and in some areas of Karaj, where protesters chanted slogans like <Death to the child-killing government,> and <Death to the dictator.> The city of Shiraz, the capital of Fars Province, also witnessed nighttime slogans from some of the protesting people on Sunday evening. The protesters in Shiraz chanted slogans such as <Death to the dictator,> <Death to Khamenei,> and <Armita Geravand, your path continues.>


Armitas' paintings
On the left, a self-portrait, and on the right are her paintings on the school walls

What happened to Armita Geravand?
Armita Geravand was a talented athlete and a passionate painter. She was brutally assaulted by a Hijab patrol on a Tehran metro subway at around 7 a.m. on Sunday, October 1, 2023, when she and her friends were going to school without covering their hair, according to eyewitnesses cited by The Guardian. Armita's head was bleeding when her friends pulled her out of the subway carriage. After 45 minutes, an ambulance took her to the Air Force Fajr Hospital, swarmed by security forces and plainclothes agents. The clerical regime published a doctored video of the CCTV cameras in the metro, but not the footage from the camera inside the metro wagon. The parents were not allowed to visit Armita, and her mother who attempted to do so, was temporarily arrested. They were only allowed a glimpse of their daughter in the ICU. Armita
 Geravand remained in Fajr Hospital in Tehran under a tight security presence. Finally, after so many days of foot-dragging and leaking conflicting reports, the Iranian regime announced the death of Armita Geravand, on Saturday, October 28, 2023.>>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/10/29/armita-geravand-is-laid-to-rest/

Narges Mohammadi

Jinha - Womens News Agency - 30 Oct 2023
<<Narges Mohammadi: Our Armita was sent to the brink of death because of her beautiful hair
News Center- 16-year-old Armita Garawand, who was hospitalized after being physically attacked by Iran's morality police officers at Tehran Metro on October 1 for not complying with the compulsory <hijab>, died at Fajr Hospital on Saturday. Her family was not allowed to bury their daughter in her hometown Kermanshah. On Sunday, she was buried in the Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery in Tehran under blockade.
<Armita Geravand was sent to the brink of death because of her beautiful hair>
Narges Mohammadi, Iranian human rights activist and vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC) expressed her condolences on Instagram regarding the death of Armita Geravand.
<Geravand, full of the enthusiasm of life, was sent to the brink of death because of her beautiful hair, which she had no intention of hiding with 'Mandatory Hijab.' No independent reporter was allowed to enter the hospital, only active reporters affiliated with the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting & TV, and the News websites that belonged to the Revolutionary Guard.>
'Her death was announced by the government news agency'
In her post, Narges Mohammadi emphasized that metro camera footage was cut and edited and said, <Families, students, and school teachers came under control. The news of her death was not announced by her family but by the government news agency, and the time of her death was not determined by the signs of the girl's life but by the deceptive policies of the government. The government will also force the location of her burial.
<The news of Armita Geravand's murder, manipulated by security services , concealed under the rubble, filled with deceit, and government lies, was like a small sound amidst many louder voices in the midst of the casualties in the Middle East war. It was a fire that sought to extinguish the flames of Mahsa, Nika, Sarina, Ghazaleh, and others, caused by the religious, dictatorial woman-hating government. <Our Armita Geravand, got killed with more innocence than the innocence of the boys and girls who lost their lives to bullets. The government's security claws hit this <crime> so hard that the <truth> was buried under a mound of threats and government deception. When the <truth> is buried and the defenseless victim, crying out for not <justice> but not even for <pain,> death is the least of human <pain> and <suffering.> Pain is, in reality, the lie, deceit, and deception of the Islamic republic government.> I will never forget the innocent death of Armita Geravand, and I will not Tolerate the <Mandatory Hijab> anymore in her memory.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/narges-mohammadi-our-armita-was-sent-to-the-brink-of-death-because-of-her-beautiful-hair-34069

Iranwire - 30 Oct 2023
<<US <Deeply Saddened> by Iranian Teenager's Death after Hijab Encounter
US national-security advisor Jake Sullivan has spoken of his deep sadness over the death of a 16-year-old Iranian girl who fell into a coma early this month after being assaulted at a Tehran metro station for not wearing a headscarf. <I am deeply saddened to learn that Armita Geravand has died after being beaten by Iran's morality police for not wearing a hijab in public,> Sullivan said on October 29 on the social media platform X. <Iran's state-sponsored violence against its own people is appalling and underscores the fragility of the regime,> he added. German Foreign Minister Baerbock also expressed her dismay at Armita's death and said on X: <The future of Iran is its youth. The future of Iran is its women. The regime cannot suppress their desire for freedom.> Armita was declared brain dead a week ago and died on October 28. She had been in a coma in Tehran's Fajr Military Hospital since October 1 after losing consciousness on the city’s metro. The authorities said Armita had fallen and injured her head after suffering a sudden drop in blood pressure. But reports indicated that the teenager, whose headscarf was draped over her shoulders, was pushed by a woman wearing a full Islamic chador, or head and body covering. Footage from inside the train has not been released, despite evidence suggesting that the train car had CCTV cameras. Armita was buried amid tight security in Tehran on October 29. Civil rights activist Reza Khandan told IranWire that his wife, prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, was among several people detained during the ceremony at the Behesht-e Zahra cemetery. Armita's death came just over a year after the death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini following her arrest for allegedly wearing her headscarf <improperly.> The tragedy triggered protests that spread across the country and rapidly escalated into calls for the overthrow of Iran's four-decade-old Islamic theocracy. Authorities responded with a brutal crackdown in which more than 500 people were killed and over 22,000 others were unlawfully detained, according to activists. The European Union, the United States and other countries have issued multiple rounds of sanctions against the Islamic Republic in recent months over its clampdown on dissent. Sullivan said that the United States <will continue to press for the rights of women and girls, and work with the international community to hold Iran accountable for the violations of the Iranian people's human rights.> >>
Read more here:
https://iranwire.com/en/women/122027-us-deeply-saddened-by-iranian-teenagers-death-after-hijab-encounter/

Iran lost a daughter
NCRI - Womens committee - October 28, 2023 - in Women's News
<<Death of Armita Geravand Is Officially Announced by Criminal Regime in Iran
After so many days of foot-dragging and leaking conflicting reports, the criminal Iranian regime finally announced the death of Armita Geravand, Iran's beloved daughter.The authorities have reportedly refused to hand over Armita's body to her family. They insist that the family is not permitted to transport her body to Kermanshah. Instead, security forces will conduct the burial in Tehran to prevent protests similar to those that occurred in the case of Zhina (Mahsa) Amini.
Official announcement of the death of Armita Geravand
At 9:57 a.m., Saturday, October 28, 2023, the clerical regime's official news agency IRNA announced, <Armita Geravand, a Tehrani student, passed away.> Other state media published the same dictated cliche report. The official narrative is that she fainted due to a sudden drop in blood pressure as she was walking into a metro wagon with her friends. Her head hit <the outer edge of the station!!> and she was injured. Her head was hit so strongly that she initially suffered a cardiac arrest but she came back with the help of several citizens who helped resuscitate her. <Unfortunately, the damage to her brain caused her to go into a coma for some time, and she passed away a few minutes ago.> <According to the official opinion of doctors,> IRNA added, <Armita Geravand collapsed after a sudden drop in blood pressure, suffered a brain injury, followed by continuous convulsions, decreased cerebral oxygenation, and cerebral edema.>
Death of Armita Geravand Is Officially Announced by Criminal Regime in Iran


Armita Geravand, the beloved daughter of Iran

Background on the death of Armita Geravand


Hijab enforcer attacks Armita Geravand
Armita Geravand was brutally assaulted by a Hijab patrol on a Tehran metro subway at around 7 a.m. on Sunday, October 1, 2023, when she and her friends were going to school without covering their hair, according to eyewitnesses cited by The Guardian. Armita's head was bleeding when her friends pulled her out of the subway carriage. After 45 minutes, an ambulance took her to the Air Force Fajr Hospital, swarmed by security forces and plainclothes agents. A Sharq Daily reporter, Maryam Lotfi, who went to the hospital to prepare a report on this incident was detained for several hours. The clerical regime published a doctored video of the CCTV cameras in the metro, but not the footage from the camera inside the metro wagon. The parents were not allowed to visit Armita, and her mother who attempted to do so, was temporarily arrested. They were only allowed a glimpse of their daughter in the ICU.
Armita Geravand remained in Fajr Hospital in Tehran under a tight security presence.
The regime even changed her room and all the medical staff caring for her after a picture was leaked out of the hospital, presumably by one of the staff. Armita enjoyed excellent physical and mental health. She was not only a dedicated athlete who achieved a third-degree black belt in Taekwondo and a member of a martial arts team in Tehran but also a passionate painter, deeply involved in the art.
Death of Armita Geravand Is Officially Announced by Criminal Regime in Iran
Mullahs' criminal practices against women have nothing to do with Islam
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, extended her condolences over the loss of Armita Geravand.
<Once again, the religious fascism ruling Iran has taken an innocent girl from us under the bogus excuse of improper veiling. <The repressive forces aim to prevent people's uprising and protest by besieging the hospital and employing oppressive measures. Yet, they are unaware that the people, especially the youth of Iran, as well as my fellow Iranian girls and women, remain determined to overthrow the mullahs' regime and replace it with democracy and people’s sovereignty.> She reiterated, <The inhumane and misogynistic policies and practices of the mullahs' regime against women have nothing to do with Islam and the Quran and are only a means to continue the disgraceful rule of the Velayat-e Faqih regime. No to compulsory religion, no to compulsory government, and no to compulsory hijab.>
Iranians will seek justice for the death of Armita Geravand
As the NCRI Women's Committee noted a few days ago, speculations are that she was brain-dead from the outset, otherwise, why did the authorities prevent any access to Armita, by her parents, friends, or journalists? Why was the hospital placed under a heavy security blockade?
The clerical regime orchestrated the announcement of the death of Armita Geravand for the weekend when all international news agencies work with limited staff and people are on vacation so that the news is completely overshadowed by the death and destruction the regime has caused in the Middle East. The Iranian people, however, follow the news curiously. They do not forget that the overthrow of the clerical regime, the root cause of the war and crisis in the Middle East, and regime change in Iran are indispensable not only to freedom and respect for human rights in Iran but also to regional and global peace and security. The NCRI Women's Committee renews its call for an independent investigation of this state murder by the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women.>>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/10/28/death-of-armita-geravand/

NCRI - Womens committee - October 28, 2023 - in Statements
<<The NCRI Women’s Committee calls for an international investigation into the death of Armita Geravand and condemnation of the systematic oppression of Iranian women and discrimination against them.
The UN Security Council should include the punishment of the mullahs' repressive regime on its agenda. The Women's Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran offers its condolences for the loss of Armita Geravand, which tragically echoes the death of Zhina Amini at the hands of state agents. The NCRI Women's Committee holds Ali Khamenei, Ebrahim Raisi, Gholam Hossein Ejei, and their mayor in Tehran directly responsible for this murder, a heinous crime that has outraged all the people of Iran, especially women.
The NCRI Women’s Committee urges the UN fact-finding mission to investigate this crime.
After the Jina Amini case, the oppressive clerical regime attempted to conceal the truth by obscuring facts, disseminating false and misleading information, and pressuring the innocent girl’s family and associates. Since last night, and prior to the announcement of the death of Armita, the repressive State Security Force has cordoned off Fajr Hospital, where she was hospitalized, in an effort to deter any potential protests. Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the NCRI President-elect said in this regard, <Once again, the religious fascism ruling Iran has taken an innocent girl from us under the bogus excuse of improper veiling. The repressive forces aim to prevent people's uprising and protest by besieging the hospital and employing oppressive measures. Yet, they are unaware that the people, especially the youth of Iran, as well as my fellow Iranian girls and women, remain determined to overthrow the mullahs' regime and replace it with democracy and people's sovereignty.> Mrs. Rajavi commented on the ruling mullahs' demagoguery under the name of Islam, and reiterated, <The inhumane and misogynistic policies and practices of the mullahs' regime against women have nothing to do with Islam and the Quran and are only a means to continue the disgraceful rule of the Velayat-e Faqih regime. No to compulsory religion, no to compulsory government, and no to compulsory hijab.> The NCRI Women's Committee calls on the US Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran and the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, along with all women's rights advocates, to denounce the systematic, brutal suppression of Iranian women and girls, as well as the discrimination they face. Furthermore, it urges the UN Security Council to include the punishment of the clerical regime on its agenda.
National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) - Women's Committee
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Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/10/28/the-death-of-armita/

NCRI - Womens committee - 25 Oct 2023 - in Women's News
<<Iranian state media confirm that Armita Geravand is brain dead; her family does not
The public remains in the dark as the regime continues to cover up the truth and restrict access to Armita Geravand or her family. The Iranian state media, including the state-run Tasnim news agency, the Islamic Republic of Iran News Network (IRINN), Borna news agency, and others announced on Sunday, October 22, 2023, that Armita Geravand seemed certain to be <brain dead.> IRINN reported that <follow-ups on the latest health condition of Armita Geravand indicate that her health condition as brain dead seems certain despite the efforts of the medical staff.>
The news was followed by contradicting reports from other sources.
The Norway-based Hengaw group that first reported on Armita Geravand cited an interview with her father, Bahman Geravand, who said, <Armita's medical team has informed us that her brain is no longer functioning, and there is no hope of recovery.> However, Radio Farda, the Persian branch of the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), cited two members of Armita's family on the same day, October 22, who denied her being <brain dead.> But they added, <Nothing could be done for her at this stage,> and <everything is in the hands of God.> Both family members expressed <hope that she would return.> They said the medical team had assured them, <that if Armita was brain dead, they would not have taken care of her until today.> Yet other unverified reports said the devices were disconnected from her at 7 p.m. on Sunday, October 22, and she was transferred to the morgue. Her family was told to be prepared for her burial. Intelligence services are allegedly putting pressure on her family with regard to the place of burial.
What happened to Armita Geravand?
Armita Geravand was allegedly attacked by Hijab Guards in Tehran's metro subway on Sunday, October 1, 2023, according to eyewitnesses cited by The Guardian. Armita's head was bleeding when her friends pulled her out of the subway carriage. After 45 minutes, an ambulance took her to the Air Force Fajr Hospital, swarmed by security forces and plainclothes agents. A Sharq Daily reporter, Maryam Lotfi, who went to the hospital to prepare a report on this incident was detained for several hours. The clerical regime published a doctored video of the CCTV cameras in the metro, but not the footage from the camera inside the metro wagon.

Assault on Armita Gevarnand at the subway - here's your footage 'bloodhounds'!
The official narrative is that Armita fainted in the subway carriage because she had skipped breakfast, and had a sudden drop in blood pressure. The authorities say there was no altercation in the metro station with Armita. The regime's official news agency, IRNA, interviewed her parents and friends who confirmed that she had fainted. A woman accompanying Armita's parents in their first interview was later identified as a member of the IRGC Bassij, posing as a relative. The parents were not allowed to visit Armita, and her mother who attempted to do so, was temporarily arrested. They were only allowed a glimpse of their daughter in the ICU. Armita has remained in Fajr Hospital in Tehran under a tight security presence.
The regime even changed her room and all the medical staff caring for her after a picture was leaked out of the hospital, presumably by one of the staff.
Has Armita Geravand, 16, suffered the fate of Zhina Mahsa Amini?
Vital signs allegedly declined on October 11
On October 11, 2023, an official website affiliated with the clerical regime's Ministry of Sports and Youths announced that the relatively steady vital signs of Armita Geravand had changed over the past few days and her condition had deteriorated to some extent. The report by the state-run BORNA news agency, which was removed after being published, indicated that the efforts of the medical team to help the 16-year-old student recover continue. Despite the report's removal, some state media, including khabaronline.ir and hamshahrionline.ir published the news citing BORNA news.
According to social media reports, the medical team caring for Armita Geravand has told security forces based in the Fajr Hospital that since she no longer has any reactions or vital signs, she was most definitely brain dead. They said her continued connection to medical devices is no longer justified, and her family should be informed that she is brain dead, which means she has died. In reaction to this news, Ms. Sarvnaz Chitsaz, the chair of the NCRI Women's Committee, said, <The state-run websites report on the deterioration of Armita Geravand's condition could be a preparation for announcing her death. It is surprising, however, that the regime did not officially give any specific information about the condition of 16-year-old Armita until Wednesday night, October 11, while they said she had been in a coma since a week before. <Clearly, the regime has a specific scenario for covering up the truth about Armita, considering the experience of Zhina (Mahsa) Amini. Notably, the regime has evaded giving a clear answer even to the representatives and officials of the United Nations.>
Mounting evidence of an official cover-up
On October 4, the NCRI President-elect, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi urged the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women to promptly inquire about Armita's condition and dispatch a representative to visit the innocent girl before it becomes too late. She said, <If the clerical regime has nothing to hide in the case of 16-year-old Armita Geravand...., why are they surrounding the hospital and preventing independent journalists from gaining access?> Amnesty International issued a call on Friday, October 6, urging an independent investigation into what happened to Geravand, saying there was <mounting evidence of a cover-up by the authorities.> Amnesty said it had analyzed footage published by Iranian media that purportedly shows there was no altercation and found that the footage has been edited, the frame rate increased and over three minutes of footage is missing.
Amnesty said it had <serious concerns> that Geravand's family and friends <have been forced to appear in propaganda videos and reiterate the state narrative under duress and threats of reprisals.>
Iranian regime wary of protests in the wake of Armita's death
Armita Geravand has not undergone any operations since being admitted to Fajr Hospital on October 1, 2023, as her condition was deemed too fragile. Speculations are that she was brain dead from the outset, otherwise, why did the authorities prevent any access to Armita, by her parents, friends, or journalists? Why was the hospital placed under a heavy security blockade? The Iranian regime is worried that the news of Armita Geravand's death could revive nationwide protests similar to the ones sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini while in the custody of <morality police> in September last year that continued for months. By disseminating conflicting reports, the regime attempts to reduce society's sensitivity to this issue and prevent the eruption of public outrage. The NCRI Women's Committee renews the Iranian Resistance's call for an independent investigation by the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women to find out the truth.>>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/10/25/armita-geravand-brain-dead/

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