An Iranian teenager has been left comatose after she was reportedly assaulted by state morality police for not wearing a mandatory hijab, echoing the treatment of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini. Armita Geravand, 16, is currently lying in a hospital under 'strict measures' at an air force hospital in Tehran, 's capital, according to a civil rights group. Hengaw, a Norway-based Kurdish human rights NGO, claims that on Sunday morning, Armita sustained 'severe injuries' when she was attacked by hijab officers in Shohada Station, a stop on the city's metro, for allegedly not wearing a hijab, which all women in Iran are meant to wear under strict morality laws.
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