{"id":17249,"date":"2023-10-23T20:55:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T20:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/iranian-teens-family-say-no-hope-for-recovery-after-metro-incident\/"},"modified":"2023-10-23T20:55:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T20:55:05","slug":"iranian-teens-family-say-no-hope-for-recovery-after-metro-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/iranian-teens-family-say-no-hope-for-recovery-after-metro-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian teen\u2019s family say \u2018no hope for recovery\u2019 after metro incident"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An Iranian teenager who was left in a coma after what activists described as an assault by police on the Tehran metro has no hope of recovery, her father has said.<\/p>\n

The Kurdish-focused Hengaw rights group published a statement by the family of Armita Garawand, 16, after state Iranian media said that she was now \u201clikely brain-dead\u201d following the early October incident.<\/p>\n

Iran has vehemently denied accusations that Garawand was badly injured during an altercation on the Tehran metro with female officers who had apprehended her for allegedly flouting strict dress rules for women.<\/p>\n

Authorities say the teenager collapsed due to low blood pressure.<\/p>\n

\u201cArmita\u2019s medical team has informed us that her brain is no longer functioning, and there is no hope of recovery,\u201d her father Bahman Garawand told the Norway-based Hengaw group on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Hengaw said that the teen had not undergone any operations since being admitted to the hospital on October 1 as her condition was deemed too fragile.<\/p>\n

Garawand has remained in Fajr Hospital in Tehran under what Hengaw and other sources have described as a tight security presence.<\/p>\n

Hengaw reported earlier this month that Garawand\u2019s mother had been arrested around the hospital area but was later released.<\/p>\n

Iran is wary of Garawand\u2019s condition sparking unrest, after the September 2022 death<\/a> in custody of Mahsa Amini, who had been arrested for allegedly violating the dress code, triggered months of nationwide protests<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Amnesty International earlier this month called for an independent investigation into what happened to Garawand, saying there was \u201cmounting evidence of a cover-up by the authorities\u201d.<\/p>\n

Amnesty said it had analysed footage published by Iranian media that purportedly shows there was no altercation and found that the footage has been edited, the frame rate increased, and over three minutes of footage missing.<\/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

Iran\u2019s official news agency IRNA<\/em> later published interviews with two girls who said they were Garawand\u2019s friends and confirmed the account.<\/p>\n

Hengaw said all interviews with family and eyewitnesses of the incident published by state-controlled Iranian media \u201cremain unverifiable\u201d.<\/p>\n

Amnesty said it had \u201cserious concerns\u201d that Garawand\u2019s family and friends \u201chave been forced to appear in propaganda videos and reiterate the state narrative under duress and threats of reprisals\u201d.<\/p>\n

Iranian journalist Maryam Lotfi was briefly detained after going to Fajr Hospital to report on Garawand\u2019s condition, according to her Shargh newspaper<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Iranian teenager who was left in a coma after what activists described as an assault by police on the Tehran metro has no hope of recovery, her father has said. The Kurdish-focused Hengaw rights group published a statement by the family of Armita Garawand, 16, after state Iranian media said that she was now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/_img\/social-default.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}