Iranian teen injured on Tehran Metro while not wearing a head scarf...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Suspicions that she was beaten during her arrest led to mass protests that represented the largest challenge to Iran´s theocratic government since the revolution.
45% : FILE - In this image from surveillance video aired by Iranian state television, women pull 16-year-old Armita Geravand from a train car on the Tehran Metro in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023.
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 Mahsa Amini and the nationwide protests it sparked.
37% : 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.
35% : "Geravand´s injury also came 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.
32% : Since those large-scale protests subsided, many women in Tehran could be seen without the hijab in defiance of the law.

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