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☆ Famed Iranian Rights Lawyer Reportedly Jailed and Beaten
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Leily Nikounazar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A prominent Iranian human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, was arrested and severely beaten, her husband said on Monday — one of several activists taken into custody at the funeral in Tehran of a girl who was fatally injured after a reported confrontation with the enforcers of Iran’s strict dress code for women. The activists were arrested on Sunday at the funeral of Armita Geravand, a 16-year-old who died last week following what many believe was an encounter over not covering her hair on Tehran’s subway, in defiance of the law imposed by the Shiite Islamic government. Ms. Sotoudeh, 60, is renowned for representing women who have not worn a hijab, the traditional head scarf, while in public, and for refusing to wear one herself. She has been imprisoned several times, and most recently had been convicted at a secret trial in 2019 of security-related crimes, but was released in 2021 because she suffers from heart disease and other ailments. Her husband, Reza Khandan, said in an interview she had called him in the middle of the night to tell him what had happened, including that her glasses were broken in custody.

Persons: Nasrin Sotoudeh, Armita, Sotoudeh, Reza Khandan Organizations: Islamic Locations: Tehran

☆ Iranian Girl Dies in Hospital After Alleged Clash with Security Forces
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Sune Engel Rasmussen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

An image from surveillance video aired by Iranian state television shows people pulling 16-year-old Armita Geravand from a train car on the Tehran Metro Oct. 1. Photo: /Associated PressAn Iranian teenage girl, whose collapse in a Tehran metro raised public anger and suspicion that she had been attacked by morality patrol officers for not covering her hair, has died in hospital, according to Iranian state media. Armita Geravand, 16 years old, had been in a coma since Oct. 1. That day she had entered a subway car in Tehran, wearing her short black hair uncovered, and seconds later was dragged out, unconscious, and laid on the platform. She was pronounced brain dead last week.

Persons: Armita Geravand Organizations: Press Locations: Tehran, Iranian

☆ Iranian Teenager Armita Geravand Dies After Alleged Confrontation -IRNA
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Oct. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +1 min

(Reuters) -Armita Geravand, a 16-year-old Iranian girl, has died following an alleged encounter with officers over violating the country's hijab law, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday. She died a few minutes ago," IRNA reported. Geravand had been pronounced brain dead last week after she fell into a coma on Oct 1. Iran has denied that Geravand was hurt after a confrontation on Oct. 1 with officers enforcing the mandatory Islamic dress code in the Tehran metro. Violators face public rebuke, fines or arrest yet defying the strict Islamic dress code, more women have been appearing unveiled in public places such as restaurants and shops since Amini's death.

Persons: IRNA, Geravand, Shah, Jason Neely Organizations: Reuters Locations: Iran, Tehran

☆ Iranian teenager Armita Geravand dies after alleged confrontation -IRNA
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Oct 28 (Reuters) - Armita Geravand, a 16-year-old Iranian girl, has died following an alleged encounter with officers over violating the country's hijab law, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday. She died a few minutes ago," IRNA reported. Geravand had been pronounced brain dead last week after she fell into a coma on Oct 1. Iran has denied that Geravand was hurt after a confrontation on Oct. 1 with officers enforcing the mandatory Islamic dress code in the Tehran metro. Violators face public rebuke, fines or arrest yet defying the strict Islamic dress code, more women have been appearing unveiled in public places such as restaurants and shops since Amini's death.

Persons: IRNA, Geravand, Shah, Jason Neely Organizations: Thomson Locations: Iran, Tehran

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian teenage girl injured weeks ago in a mysterious incident on Tehran's Metro while not wearing a headscarf has died, state media reported Saturday. While a friend told Iranian state television that she hit her head on the station’s platform, the soundless footage aired by the broadcaster from outside of the car is blocked by a bystander. Internationally, Geravand’s injury sparked renewed criticism of Iran's treatment of women and of the mandatory hijab law. Amini died in a hospital on Sept. 16, 2022, after she was detained by Iranian morality police on allegations of improperly wearing the hijab. Since those large-scale protests subsided, many women in Tehran could be seen without the hijab in defiance of the law.

Persons: Armita Geravand, hadn’t, ”, Geravand, —, Amini, Narges Mohammadi, Mohammadi Organizations: United Arab Emirates, Metro, Tehran Metro, United Nations, Associated Press, Organization for Human Rights, West Locations: DUBAI, United Arab, Iranian, Tehran, Iran, Iran’s, Kurdish, Islamic Republic, Metro, Israel, Afghanistan

☆ Iranian Teenager Dies Weeks After Mysterious Collapse
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Christopher F. Schuetze | More About Christopher F. Schuetze | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Armita Geravand, a 16-year-old Iranian high school student, has died weeks after she collapsed and fell into a coma following what many believe was an encounter over not covering her hair in public. That report repeated the government line that Ms. Geravand’s coma had been caused by hitting her head after a fainting spell. Ms. Geravand’s case has fueled outrage among many Iranians because of her young age and because of previous cases in which hundreds of women have been brutalized by the morality police for not wearing head scarves. In Ms. Geravand’s case, the Iranian authorities released only limited footage of the incident. Ms. Amini’s death touched off widespread, monthslong demonstrations in which Iranian women publicly violated dress codes, mostly by eschewing head scarves, in huge protests that rattled the country.

Persons: Armita, Geravand’s, IRNA, Mahsa Amini Locations: Tehran

☆ Opinion: Will Israel-Hamas war mean a US-Iran escalation?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Opinion Charles Dunne | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

However, the White House has, for the moment, rightly stopped short of concluding that a major escalation is inevitable. While this risks escalation, it might be necessary — and a lack of resolve is also a risk in the face of ongoing attacks. There is a history here that goes beyond the fact that the US is allied with and supporting Israel in its war on Hamas. There has been much speculation about whether, given these well-documented ties, Iran ordered the Hamas operation in southern Israel. Miscalculations — whether by Iran, Israel, Hezbollah or even the US — could rapidly lead to a multifront regional war with casualties easily numbering in the tens of thousands.

Persons: Charles Dunne, John Kirby, Joe Biden, “, Qassem Soleimani, Bashar al, Assad, there’s, —, Biden, ”, It’s, Iran hasn’t, Israel, Geravand, it’s Organizations: US Foreign Service, Arab Center Washington DC, Middle East Institute, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, CNN, Hamas, White, National Security, Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Qods Force, Reuters, Washington Post, Force Locations: Iraq, Syria, Israel, Iranian, Washington, Tehran, Iran, United States, Europe, Sarajevo, Russia, Syrian, State, Lebanon, Gaza, Yemen, Hezbollah, Sudan, Egypt, Qatar, Israel’s

CNN —A teenage Iranian girl who fell into a coma after she was allegedly assaulted by the country’s morality police for not wearing a headscarf is “brain dead,” state-aligned media said. Earlier in October, the Norway-based Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, which focuses on Kurdish rights, said Geravand was “assaulted” by morality police and fell into a coma. “This request resulted in an altercation with the morality police officers physically assaulting Geravand. Iranian authorities have denied the allegations, saying Geravand was hospitalized due to an injury caused by low blood pressure. Armita Geravand was hospitalized in October following an incident at a Tehran metro station.

Persons: Armita Geravand, Geravand, “, ” Hengaw, Awyer Shekhi, ” Shekhi, Mahsa, Niloofar Hamedi, Elaheh Mohammadi, Hamedi’s, Mohammad Hossein Ajorloo, ”, Sherif Mansour Organizations: CNN, Organization for Human Rights, UN, Shargh, Twitter, Committee, Protect Journalists Locations: Tehran, Iran, Norway, Shohada, United States, Niloofar, Middle East, North Africa

☆ Iranian teenager Armita Geravand is 'brain dead': state media
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

DUBAI, Oct 22 (Reuters) - A teenage Iranian girl, who fell into a coma earlier this month following an alleged encounter with officers over violating the country's hijab law, is said to be "brain dead", Iranian state media reported on Sunday. "Follow-ups on the latest health condition of Geravand indicate that her condition of being brain dead seems certain despite the efforts of the medical staff," state media reported. Iran has denied that Geravand was hurt after a confrontation on Oct. 1 with officers enforcing the mandatory Islamic dress code in the Tehran metro. Iran's theocratic establishment has imposed restrictions on women's dress since a popular revolution deposed the secular and Western-backed Shah in 1979. Defying the strict Islamic dress code, more women have been appearing unveiled in public places such as malls, restaurants and shops across the country since Amini's death.

Persons: Mahsa Amini, Geravand, Shah, Bernadette Baum Organizations: Reuters, Dubai, Thomson Locations: DUBAI, Iran, Tehran

☆ Opinion: This Nobel prize is for all the women fighting for freedom in Iran
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-07 | by ( Stuart Ross | Opinion Frida Ghitis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

On Friday, Iranian activist Narges Mohammedi won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Iranian women, who were often joined by men, took to the streets to demand equality and an end to the repressive regime. Geravand, it seems, may be one of the countless Iranian women who have refused to surrender to the crackdown. For Nobel prize winner Narges Mohammedi, it’s a clear choice. “I am sure,” she wrote to CNN, “that the world without freedom, equality and peace is not worth living.”

Persons: Frida Ghitis, CNN —, Narges Mohammedi, Mohammedi, ”, Ponder, “ Bella, Mahsa Amini, Jin, Geravand, “ Organizations: CNN, Washington Post, Politics, Frida Ghitis CNN, New York Times, Authorities Locations: Iran, Evin, Kurdish, Jiyan, Azadi, Tehran, Norway

☆ Iranian Peace Laureate Mohammadi: 'Lioness' Locked up for Challenging Tehran
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( Oct. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +4 min

(Reuters) - Jailed Iranian rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, has sacrificed her freedom for most of her adult life and faces many more years behind bars as she vows to keep challenging clerical rule in Tehran. Mohammadi became the second Iranian woman to be awarded the prize, following the path of her mentor, the lawyer Shirin Ebadi, who won it for her own rights activism in 2003. This is why the regime wants to crush her," Ebadi wrote of Mohammadi in a foreword to Mohammadi's 2020 book "White Torture", a collection of interviews with women prisoners. The committee that awards the Nobel prize said it honoured those behind last year’s demonstrations, and called for the release of Mohammadi. Following her win, Mohammadi said she would never stop striving for democracy and equality, even if that meant staying in prison.

Persons: Narges Mohammadi, Shirin Ebadi, Narges, Ebadi, Mohammadi's, Mohammadi, ”, Shah, Evin, Taghi Rahmani, Ali, Kiana, Rahmani, Mahsa Amini, Amini, Islamic Republic ”, Nobel, Armita Geravand, Fars, Maria Ressa, Russia's Dmitry Muratov Organizations: Reuters, New York Times, Islamic, Philippines Locations: Tehran, Mohammadi, Zanjan, Iran, Qazvin, France, Islamic Republic

Their mother is Narges Mohammadi, a woman whose name has become synonymous with the fight for human rights in Iran – a battle that has cost this activist almost everything. “This period was and still is the era of greatest protest in this prison,” Mohammadi told CNN in written responses to questions submitted through intermediaries. Now, those same women are experiencing sexual assault and harassment against themselves.”‘Systemic’ abuse of women detaineesIn her letter and responses to CNN, Mohammadi details incidents of sexual violence against her and other female detainees at different facilities dating back to 1999. Political prisoners and women held on criminal charges were assaulted by security forces, prison authorities and medical personnel, she says. Mark Esplin/CNNAli, like his father, is resolute, saying his mother must keep going “for Iran, for our future.”“I am really proud of my mom,” Ali told CNN.

Persons: Ali, Narges, Mohammadi, Bella, ” Mohammadi, “, Majid Asgaripour, ”, Taghi Rahmani, Taghi, Mark Esplin, Rahmani, “ Kiana, It’s, ” Ali, CNN Ali, ” Kiana, Kiana Organizations: CNN, Evin, Fascists, Reuters Locations: Iran, Tehran, Evin, France, Paris

CNN —Activists on Wednesday accused Iran’s morality police of assaulting a teenage girl for not wearing a headscarf in a Tehran metro station, leading to her hospitalization with serious injuries. But Iranian authorities and the teenager’s parents said she was hospitalized due to low blood pressure. The CEO of the Tehran metro however told state media that there was no physical or verbal interaction between Geravand and members of his staff. There was nothing recorded on the videos,” Tehran metro managing director Masoud Dorosti, told state media. In a video posted on state-affiliated Fars News Agency’s account on X, formerly known as Twitter, a group of girls are seen entering the metro train.

Persons: Iran’s, Geravand, “, ” “, Armita, ” Hengaw, Awyer Shekhi, Shekhi, Hengaw, Masoud Dorosti, ”, Shahin Ahmadi, …, Ahmad Garavand, Amini, Maryam Lotfi Organizations: CNN, Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Fars News, Twitter, Fars News Agency, Fajr Air Force Hospital, UN, Rights, News Agency, Human Rights Locations: Tehran, Norway, Fars, Iran, Iranian

☆ Iranian girl in critical condition after alleged encounter over hijab, activists say
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The second activist said security forces had forbidden Geravand's parents from posting her picture on social media or from talking to human rights groups. The head of the Tehran Metro Operating Company, Masoud Dorosti, told IRNA the CCTV footage showed no sign of verbal or physical conflict between passengers or company employees. An Iranian journalist was briefly arrested on Monday when she went to the hospital to inquire about Geravand's situation, Iranian media reported. "Iranian security institutions have said her condition was caused by low pressure - an oft-repeated scenario from such institutions," Iran-based rights group Dadban said on social media. Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on social media platform X said: "Once again a young woman in #Iran is fighting for her life.

Persons: Armita, Mahsa, Geravand, Hengaw, Masoud Dorosti, Dadban, IRNA, Annalena Baerbock, Michael Georgy, William Maclean Organizations: Reuters, Care Unit, Tehran Metro Operating Company, Dubai Newsroom, Thomson Locations: DUBAI, Iranian, Tehran, Iran

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