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The Iranian regime’s security services have arrested Shahin Ahmadi, Armita Geravand's mother on Wednesday evening October 4, at the Fajr Hospital, social media reports and human rights groups say. Armita Geravand, 16, was attacked by guidance patrols in a Tehran metro station on Sunday, October 1, getting shoved so badly that she suffered head trauma and fell into a coma. Her friends said her head was bleeding when a nurse or doctor at the metro station gave her CPR before she was transferred to the Air Force’s Fajr Hospital in an ambulance.

On October 3, after two days, her parents were interviewed by state-run IRNA TV, saying she had fainted due to a drop in her blood pressure. The interview was carried out in the hospital under the heavy presence of security officials. An unknown woman, identified as “a relative,” was interviewed by the TV saying that the guidance patrol attack on the young woman was a rumor disseminated by enemies of the state.

In other related news, it has been reported that the “veil watchers” at the metro stations have been withdrawn since last Sunday when Armita Geravand was attacked. In addition, the security forces of the Education Ministry (Herasat) and a team of security services went to the Orvat ol-Vosgha School of Art, where Armita Geravand studied. They have reportedly threatened all students and Armita's friends to refrain from posting or sharing any information or photos of her. An electronic newspaper, FARAZ, interviewed Armita’s father, who said he was at work and did not have any information on her daughter who was in a coma. The father’s comment has raised many eyebrows! The editor of the newspaper later denied publishing the interview.

In the meantime, her friends, Mahla and Fatemeh, were interviewed by IRNA. In unemotional comments, they repeated the regime’s narrative of what happened on that early morning, when they were going to school. Meanwhile, the authorities have released a longer and “edited” version of the CCTV footage to prove that no confrontation took place at the metro station. The footage, however, does not contain any footage from inside the wagon, where Armita Geravand “fainted!”

The mobile phones of all members of Armita’s family have been confiscated by security forces under suspicion of sending any recorded images after the release of Armita’s photos in the ICU. Medical reports say she has suffered a brain hemorrhage due to a blow to her head. Her chances of survival are unfortunately low.

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Mrs. Maryam Rajavi the president elect of the NCRI(National Council of Resistance of Iran) wrote in X: If the clerical regime has nothing to hide in the case of 16-year-old #ArmitaGeravand, who is in a coma after an incident in the subway where she was targeted for improper veiling, why are they surrounding the hospital and preventing independent journalists from gaining access? She posted on the same day that I urgently call upon Ms. Reem Alsalem, at UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, to promptly inquire about Armita's condition and dispatch a representative to visit the oppressed and innocent girl before it becomes too late. It is crucial to investigate her situation thoroughly. 

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Zahra Hatami, an 8th grader committed suicide on Sunday, October 1, after school authorities expelled her from school for wearing nail polish. Zahra was studying at Narjes High School in Vahidieh, Shahriar, one of Tehran’s suburbs. She was expelled from school for three days for wearing nail polish. Zahra Hatami was afraid of going home to tell her father. Reports indicate that she was afraid of being forcibly married after being expelled from school. So, she jumped off the roof of a half-built building near the school and died.

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The Political prisoner Narges Mohammadi has won the Nobel Peace prize 2023. She' still in prison in Iran. Mrs. Maryam Rajavi the president elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran posted on X: "Congratulations to Mrs. Narges Mohammadi for receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. Recalling the Iranian Resistance's repeated calls for her release, I once again urge the international community’s intervention to secure the release of Ms. Mohammadi and other political prisoners, especially women".