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International 16-Year-Old Girl In Coma After Alleged Assault Over Hijab Rules In Iran Metro
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The Kurdish-focused rights group Hengaw said the teenager, named as Armita Garawand, had been badly injured in a confrontation on the Tehran metro with female police officers.
Paris: An Iranian girl, aged 16, has been left in a coma and is being treated in hospital under heavy security after an assault on the Tehran subway, a rights group said on Tuesday, blaming the Islamic republic's notorious morality police.
The Kurdish-focused rights group Hengaw said the teenager, named as Armita Garawand, had been badly injured in a confrontation on the Tehran metro with female police officers.
This has already been denied by the Iranian authorities who say that the girl "fainted" due to low blood pressure and that there was no involvement of the security forces.
Iranian authorities remain on high alert for any upsurge of social tension just over a year after the death in custody of Mahsa Amini who had been arrested for allegedly violating the strict dress rules for women.
Her death sparked several months of protests that rattled Iran's clerical leadership and only dwindled in the face of a crackdown that according to activists has seen thousands arrested and hundreds killed.
Hengaw said that Garawand was left with severe injuries after being apprehended and physically attacked by agents of the so-called morality police at the Shohada metro station in Tehran on Sunday.
It said she was being treated under tight security at Tehran's Fajr hospital and "there are currently no visits allowed for the victim, not even from her family".
The organisation later published a picture it said was of Garawand in her hospital bed, showing her head and neck heavily bandaged and attached to a feeding tube. "Her state of consciousness is unchanged", it added.
Her parents gave an interview to Iranian state media at the hospital but "in the presence of high-ranking security officers" and "under considerable pressure", Hengaw said.
'Increased violence'
Though a resident of Tehran, Garawand hails from the city of Kermanshah in Kurdish-populated western Iran, Hengaw said.
Maryam Lotfi, a journalist from the Shargh daily newspaper, sought in the aftermath of the incident to visit the hospital but was immediately detained. She was subsequently released, it added.
The case has become the subject of intense discussion on social media, with a purported video of the incident said by some to show the teen, with friends and apparently unveiled, being pushed into the metro by female police agents and then an immobile body pulled out.
Masood Dorosti, managing director of the Tehran subway system, denied there was "any verbal or physical conflict" between the student and "passengers or metro executives".
"Some rumours about a confrontation with metro agents... are not true and CCTV footage refutes this claim," Dorosti told state news agency IRNA.
The IranWire news site, based outside Iran, cited a source as saying she had sustained a "head injury" after being pushed by the officers.
A year after Amini's death, Iranian authorities have launched a renewed push to crack down on women defying the Islamic republic's strict dress rules for women, including the mandatory hijab.
The New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said women and girls "face increased violence, arbitrary arrests and heightened discrimination after the Islamic Republic re-activated its forced-veiling police patrols"
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/arm...ssault-over-hijab-rules-in-iran-metro-4447597
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There was a psychology study on the victims of bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan. They found that the women used a lot of cognitive distortions and positive illusions to cope with their situation, e.g. "He (the rapist-now-husband) isn't that bad. At least he has a job. It could have been worse." This is a recurrent theme in psychology research: humans systematically prefer to distort their own understanding of reality instead of accepting an inescapable, ugly truth. Presumably this proclivity exists because it gave the humans who had it a survival advantage, stopped them from falling into despair and committing suicide.
There's no doubt that the phenomenon is also at play among Muslim women who claim they "enjoy" wearing the hijab and it's their "choice," especially in Islamic countries where a choice is not actually available. It's not at play for all of them, but a significant number of them, certainly. If someone tells themselves that it's their own choice, it removes them from the status of "victim" in their mind and gives them a false sense of empowerment and control over the situation. Sometimes brainwashed women can become the worst advocates for misogynistic practices (e.g. female genital mutilation, Islamic jurisprudence) because seeing someone else exercise the rights that they have denied to themselves triggers a wave of strong emotions and anger whose origins the person doesn't necessarily understand. That's actually more or less the psychology of Alicent Hightower in House of the Dragon. In the realm of gay issues, closeted gay conservatives who vehemently opposite gay rights is another example.
There's no doubt that the phenomenon is also at play among Muslim women who claim they "enjoy" wearing the hijab and it's their "choice," especially in Islamic countries where a choice is not actually available. It's not at play for all of them, but a significant number of them, certainly. If someone tells themselves that it's their own choice, it removes them from the status of "victim" in their mind and gives them a false sense of empowerment and control over the situation. Sometimes brainwashed women can become the worst advocates for misogynistic practices (e.g. female genital mutilation, Islamic jurisprudence) because seeing someone else exercise the rights that they have denied to themselves triggers a wave of strong emotions and anger whose origins the person doesn't necessarily understand. That's actually more or less the psychology of Alicent Hightower in House of the Dragon. In the realm of gay issues, closeted gay conservatives who vehemently opposite gay rights is another example.
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Normal people couldn't do that to an animal.
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You are right, only animals could do.
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Dumb shits are making this about everything except the actual assholes who perpetrated the crime and the specific ideology that guides them.
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Yeah, I suspect a lot of it is basically Stockholm Syndrome. It's not really human nature to enjoy being repressed.
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Yeah, likely the way. But repression with a fuck load of guilt attached to it as well. When the beatings start it's like penance.
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- Normal animals stop before causing excessive maiming to another one of the same species.
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Iran arrests lawyer at funeral of girl who died after metro incident
Nasrin Sotoudeh arrested at funeral of Armita Garavand, who died after alleged encounter with morality police, amid reports of police beatings and arrests at cemetery
Iranian authorities have arrested a prominent lawyer and human rights defender as she attended the funeral of a teenage girl who died after a disputed metro incident, her husband has said.
Nasrin Sotoudeh was arrested on Sunday in Tehran during the funeral of 16-year-old Armita Garavand, who died a day earlier after nearly a month in intensive care.
Sotoudeh, 60, who was awarded the European parliament’s 2012 Sakharov prize for her human rights work, has been arrested several times in recent years.
“My wife was arrested during the funeral of Armita Garavand along with others,” Reza Khandan, Sotoudeh’s husband, told Agence France-Presse, saying she was “violently beaten” during the arrest.
Journalists attempting to report on the funeral also claimed that Iranian security forces attacked, beat and arrested mourners and protesters who had gathered outside the Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery, where Garavand’s family had gathered to bury their daughter.
“They beat up mourners holding protest placards, I couldn’t get anywhere close to the funeral site,” said Negin*, a Tehran-based journalist, who added that fences had been erected around the cemetery and entrances blocked off. Other journalists who spoke to the Guardian, who all asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals, claimed that plain-clothed police officers mingled with crowds outside the cemetery before beating and arresting multiple people.
“I was violently pushed back, and watched as they beat up those holding protest placards. I myself counted at least eight people who were violently beaten and detained. I have no idea where they were taken,” said another journalist who wanted to remain anonymous.
Garavand died after being taken to Tehran’s Fajr hospital on 1 October after an incident on the metro that left her in a coma, with sharply diverging views over how she was injured. Her death came just over a year after the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, also a young Iranian Kurd, who was arrested by the “morality police” for allegedly breaching Iran’s strict women’s dress code in an incident that sparked mass protests.
The local Fars news agency said Sotoudeh “had been arrested and handed over to judicial authorities” for “not wearing a headscarf” and “disturbing the society’s mental security”.
Covering the neck and head in public has been compulsory for women since 1983, following Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution. Women have been increasingly flouting the Islamic republic’s strict dress code since months-long demonstrations erupted in September last year following Amini’s death in custody.
Sotoudeh was previously imprisoned in 2018 after defending a woman arrested for demonstrating against the compulsory headscarf in Iran. In 2019, she was sentenced to 12 years in prison on charges of “encouraging corruption and debauchery”.
Garavand’s case was first reported on 3 October by the Kurdish-focused rights group Hengaw, which said she had been critically wounded during an incident on the Tehran metro involving Iran’s “morality police”. Authorities say she suffered a sudden drop in blood pressure and denied that any “physical or verbal altercations” had taken place. Metro surveillance footage, which had been broadcast on state television, showed the unveiled teenager being taken off the carriage after apparently fainting.
After the funeral, the Iranian Teacher’s Association released a statement condemning the death of Garavand. It said that Garavand and other young women being targeted under Iran’s hijab laws were “courageous fighters who took a stand against the authoritarian regime’s ideological policies”.
During the public demonstrations last year that followed the death of Amini, schoolgirls became a powerful protest group, with videos going viral on social media of girls in classrooms across the country taking off their hijabs and removing pictures of the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ruhollah Khomeini, from classroom walls.
Human rights groups say that some young women have paid a heavy price for their resistance, with several high-profile cases of teenage girls dying after alleged encounters with security forces and the deliberate poisoning of more than 1,200 schoolgirls in cities across Iran this year.
“Armita’s case is one of several in which young girls have paid a heavy price for their defiance,” said the Iranian Teacher’s Association in its statement.
* Name changed to protect identity
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...of-teenage-girl-who-died-after-metro-incident
Nasrin Sotoudeh arrested at funeral of Armita Garavand, who died after alleged encounter with morality police, amid reports of police beatings and arrests at cemetery
Iranian authorities have arrested a prominent lawyer and human rights defender as she attended the funeral of a teenage girl who died after a disputed metro incident, her husband has said.
Nasrin Sotoudeh was arrested on Sunday in Tehran during the funeral of 16-year-old Armita Garavand, who died a day earlier after nearly a month in intensive care.
Sotoudeh, 60, who was awarded the European parliament’s 2012 Sakharov prize for her human rights work, has been arrested several times in recent years.
“My wife was arrested during the funeral of Armita Garavand along with others,” Reza Khandan, Sotoudeh’s husband, told Agence France-Presse, saying she was “violently beaten” during the arrest.
Journalists attempting to report on the funeral also claimed that Iranian security forces attacked, beat and arrested mourners and protesters who had gathered outside the Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery, where Garavand’s family had gathered to bury their daughter.
“They beat up mourners holding protest placards, I couldn’t get anywhere close to the funeral site,” said Negin*, a Tehran-based journalist, who added that fences had been erected around the cemetery and entrances blocked off. Other journalists who spoke to the Guardian, who all asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals, claimed that plain-clothed police officers mingled with crowds outside the cemetery before beating and arresting multiple people.
“I was violently pushed back, and watched as they beat up those holding protest placards. I myself counted at least eight people who were violently beaten and detained. I have no idea where they were taken,” said another journalist who wanted to remain anonymous.
Garavand died after being taken to Tehran’s Fajr hospital on 1 October after an incident on the metro that left her in a coma, with sharply diverging views over how she was injured. Her death came just over a year after the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, also a young Iranian Kurd, who was arrested by the “morality police” for allegedly breaching Iran’s strict women’s dress code in an incident that sparked mass protests.
The local Fars news agency said Sotoudeh “had been arrested and handed over to judicial authorities” for “not wearing a headscarf” and “disturbing the society’s mental security”.
Covering the neck and head in public has been compulsory for women since 1983, following Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution. Women have been increasingly flouting the Islamic republic’s strict dress code since months-long demonstrations erupted in September last year following Amini’s death in custody.
Sotoudeh was previously imprisoned in 2018 after defending a woman arrested for demonstrating against the compulsory headscarf in Iran. In 2019, she was sentenced to 12 years in prison on charges of “encouraging corruption and debauchery”.
Garavand’s case was first reported on 3 October by the Kurdish-focused rights group Hengaw, which said she had been critically wounded during an incident on the Tehran metro involving Iran’s “morality police”. Authorities say she suffered a sudden drop in blood pressure and denied that any “physical or verbal altercations” had taken place. Metro surveillance footage, which had been broadcast on state television, showed the unveiled teenager being taken off the carriage after apparently fainting.
After the funeral, the Iranian Teacher’s Association released a statement condemning the death of Garavand. It said that Garavand and other young women being targeted under Iran’s hijab laws were “courageous fighters who took a stand against the authoritarian regime’s ideological policies”.
During the public demonstrations last year that followed the death of Amini, schoolgirls became a powerful protest group, with videos going viral on social media of girls in classrooms across the country taking off their hijabs and removing pictures of the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ruhollah Khomeini, from classroom walls.
Human rights groups say that some young women have paid a heavy price for their resistance, with several high-profile cases of teenage girls dying after alleged encounters with security forces and the deliberate poisoning of more than 1,200 schoolgirls in cities across Iran this year.
“Armita’s case is one of several in which young girls have paid a heavy price for their defiance,” said the Iranian Teacher’s Association in its statement.
* Name changed to protect identity
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...of-teenage-girl-who-died-after-metro-incident
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