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Iranwire – The incident involving Armita Geravand, a 16-year-old Iranian girl who fell into a coma on October 1, remains a top headline in Iran. Amid widespread reactions on social media to reports that the teenager fell victim of the brutal enforcement of Iran’s mandatory headscarf law, there has been a conspicuous absence of “morality” officers in Tehran’s metro network. The human rights organization …

Iranwire – Iranian authorities are subjecting teachers and pupils at Armita Geravand’s school to immense pressure as part of efforts to control the information surrounding the hospitalization of the 16-year-old girl. Armita has been in a coma at Fajr Air Force Hospital outside Tehran since October 1, when she sustained a “head trauma” in a Tehran subway station, according to …

Iranwire – More than 40 countries have expressed “serious concern” at the recent adoption of the Chastity and Hijab bill by the Iranian parliament, saying the proposed law “considerably aggravates” punishments for women and girls who do not wear a compulsory headscarf. The bill “also seeks to force non-complying women into an unprecedented social and economic siege, by imposing travel …

Iranwire – Iranian authorities have ordered a poet and writer who has actively supported the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protest movement to hand himself over to serve an undisclosed prison term. The Culture and Media Prosecutor’s Office issued the summons on October 2 and gave Hujjat Baddaghi five days to comply. In defiance, Bodaghi posted a line of a poem by …

Iranwire – Zahra Shafiei Dehaghani, an Iranian filmmaker arrested during protests last month marking the one-year anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death, says she and fellow prisoners have been subject to “brutal” physical abuse by female security personnel.  In an audio message from Qarchak’s women prison, near Tehran, Dehaghani described her arrest in the capital on September 16. “Female officers, donned …