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Iran has detained the mother of a 16-year-old who was left in a coma after an alleged assault on the Tehran metro by morality police, a rights group said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Sunday\u2019s alleged assault, which came just over a year after the death<\/a> in custody of Mahsa Amini following her arrest for an alleged violation of Iran\u2019s strict dress code for women, has drawn expressions of concern from several Western governments.<\/p>\n But state media in Iran have strongly denied that Armita Garawand was hurt as a result of a clash with female police officers, saying she fainted due to blood pressure problems.<\/p>\n Kurdish-focused rights group Hengaw has insisted that Garawand was seriously wounded and left in a coma in a confrontation with police, who had apprehended her for not wearing an obligatory headscarf.<\/p>\n It has said she is being treated under high security in the Fajr hospital in Tehran, with her parents not allowed a proper visit with her.<\/p>\n Her mother Shahin Ahmadi was arrested near the hospital and taken to an unknown location by security agents, Hengaw said.<\/p>\n Iran International TV<\/em> said the arrest came after she protested the restrictions placed on hospital visits.<\/p>\n But Iran\u2019s Tasnim<\/em> news agency denied she had been arrested and lashed out at foreign media outlets for seeking to create \u201csedition and chaos\u201d.<\/p>\n Her parents earlier gave an interview to state media at the hospital \u201cunder considerable pressure\u201d and \u201cin the presence of high-ranking security officers\u201d, Hengaw said.<\/p>\n Iranian authorities remain on high alert<\/a> for any upsurge of social tension.<\/p>\n Amini\u2019s death sparked several months of protests<\/a> that rattled Iran\u2019s clerical leadership and only dwindled in the face of a crackdown<\/a> that according to activists has seen thousands arrested and hundreds killed.<\/p>\n \u201cOnce again a young woman in Iran is fighting for her life. Just because she showed her hair on the subway,\u201d German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock wrote on X, formerly Twitter. \u201cIt\u2019s intolerable.\u201d<\/p>\n Abram Paley, the acting US special envoy on Iran, posted on X that Washington was \u201cshocked and concerned about reports that Iran\u2019s so-called morality police have assaulted\u201d the teenager.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are following news of her condition. We continue to stand with the brave people of Iran and work with the world to hold the regime accountable for its abuses,\u201d Paley added.<\/p>\n But Iran dismissed the criticism.<\/p>\n \u201cInstead of interventionist and biased remarks and expressing insincere concern over Iranian women and girls, you\u2019d better be concerned about US, German and UK healthcare personnel (and) patients and tackle their situation,\u201d foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani wrote on X.<\/p>\n Tehran metro managing director Masood Dorosti denied there was \u201cany verbal or physical conflict\u201d between Garawand and \u201cpassengers or metro staff\u201d.<\/p>\n IRNA<\/em> later published interviews with two girls who said they were Garawand\u2019s friends and confirmed the account.<\/p>\n On Monday, Iranian journalist Maryam Lotfi was briefly detained after going to a Tehran hospital to report on Garawand\u2019s condition, according to the reformist Shargh<\/em> newspaper.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Iran has detained the mother of a 16-year-old who was left in a coma after an alleged assault on the Tehran metro by morality police, a rights group said on Thursday. 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