Death of Armita Geravand

Armita Geravand (Persian: آرمیتا گراوند) was a 17-year-old Iranian girl who fell into a coma on the Tehran Metro on 1 October 2023 after an alleged encounter with officers enforcing Islamic Hijab.

[6] In Iran, women are required by law to cover their hair and wear loose fitting clothes as part of strict Islamic dress codes.

According to the Tehran and Houmah Metro Company, the TWM-EM-1203 series subway car that Geravand boarded is equipped with multiple video surveillance cameras.

[3][10] According to the Norway-based human rights group Hengaw, Geravand was confronted by morality police officers for not wearing a headscarf and, after a brief altercation, she was assaulted and fell, causing her to hit her head and lose consciousness.

[3] Iran's state media claims this footage proves their narrative but does not show the events inside the train car leading up to Geravand's coma.

[7] An analysis from Amnesty International's evidence laboratory alleges that the video was sped up in multiple sections and that, based on time stamps, there is a gap of 3 minutes and 16 seconds in the footage.

[5] The incident has drawn comparisons to that of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who died under suspicious circumstances on 16 September 2022 while in the custody of the morality police.