Iran’s judiciary has denied a report by a rights group that said security forces had arrested the mother of a teenage girl who was in a coma after an alleged confrontation with police.
Iranian authorities have denied reports by rights activists that the 16-year-old girl, Armita Geravand, was injured on Sunday in a confrontation with officers enforcing the country’s conservative dress code, which requires women to wear a head covering.
The Iranian-Kurdish rights group Hengaw said that security forces arrested Geravand’s mother Shahin Ahmadi on Thursday near the hospital where her daughter was taken after the incident.
Iran’s judiciary denied the report by Hengaw on the X social media platform.
Iranian state news agency IRNA reported that the judiciary denied any arrest having taken place. It said that unidentified enemies were spreading rumours about Geravand’s “loss of consciousness” for their own gain.
The incident has come more than a year after Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman whose death in a coma in September 2022 in the custody of morality police sparked weeks of nationwide anti-government protests, which led to a violent crackdown by authorities.
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