Iranian Teenager Dies Weeks After Mysterious Collapse

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61% : The circumstances of her case have prompted comparisons with Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman whose death in police custody in September 2022 led to the most significant wave of anti-government protests since the Iranian revolution in 1979.
49% : But this summer, the government created a special unit to enforce laws in Iran that require women to cover their hair with a hijab and wear loosefitting robes.Station camera footage released by the government captured only part of the incident involving Ms. Geravand.
42% : Neither family nor friends were allowed to visit, and the police arrested a journalist who tried to see her in the hospital, according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran, an opposition group that has tracked Ms. Geravand's case.
40% : Ms. Geravand's death, nearly a month after she was believed to have been shoved by officers for not wearing a head scarf on a subway car in Tehran, was announced by Iran's state news agency IRNA on Saturday.
38% : With international and domestic pressure mounting, Iran said in December that it was abolishing its morality police.
36% : Armita Geravand, a 16-year-old Iranian high school student, has died weeks after she collapsed and fell into a coma following what many believe was an encounter over not covering her hair in public.

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