An Iranian teenager injured on Tehran Metro while not wearing a headscarf has died, state media say

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : In Iran, the hijab -- and the all-encompassing black chador worn by some -- has long been a political symbol as well, particularly after becoming mandatory in the years following the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
47% : Iran remains squeezed by sanctions and faces ever-rising tensions with the West over its rapidly advancing nuclear program and its aid to regional militant groups, including a renewed focus on its relationship with Hamas following that group's unprecedented attack on and war with Israel.
46% : Iran and neighboring Taliban-ruled Afghanistan are the only countries where the hijab remains mandatory for women.
41% : "Yet we do know that in a climate where Iranian authorities severely penalize women and girls for not adhering to the state's forced-hijab law, Armita courageously appeared in public without one.
40% : They also demanded an independent investigation by the United Nations' fact-finding mission on Iran, citing the theocracy's use of pressure on victims' families and state TV's history of airing hundreds of coerced confessions.
37% : The death of Armita Geravand comes after her being in a coma for weeks in Tehran and after the one-year anniversary of the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini that sparked nationwide protests at the time.
37% : "Armita's voice has been forever silenced, preventing us from hearing her story," wrote the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran.
37% : "It added: "As long as the Iranian government enforces its draconian mandatory hijab law, the lives of girls and women in Iran will hang in the balance, vulnerable to severe rights violations, including violence and even death.
37% : Geravand's injury and subsequent death also comes as Iran has put its morality police -- whom activists implicate in Amini's death -- back on the street, and as lawmakers push to enforce even stricter penalties for those flouting the required head covering.
36% : Geravand's Oct. 1 injury and now her death threaten to reignite that popular anger, particularly as women in Tehran and elsewhere still defy Iran's mandatory headscarf, or hijab, law as a sign of their discontent with Iran's theocracy.
32% : Since those large-scale protests subsided, many women in Tehran could be seen without the hijab in defiance of the law.
28% : ""During the last 28 days, the Islamic Republic of Iran tried to distort the narrative of the government murder of this teenage girl," the group alleged.

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