A teenage Iranian girl, who fell into a coma earlier this month following an alleged encounter with officers over violating the country's hijab law, is said to be "brain dead", Iranian state media reported on Sunday.

A teenage Iranian girl, who fell into a coma earlier this month following an alleged encounter with officers over violating the country’s hijab law, is said to be “brain dead”, Iranian state media reported on Sunday.

    • Salamendacious@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      312·
      9 months ago

      That’s unfortunately only an option if you’re born in or live in a country that gives you that option.

  • sneezymrmilo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    9 months ago

    Religion is a fucking plauge that only serves to divide people. When has religion ever done the world any good? Its just sad…

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    5·
    9 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    DUBAI, Oct 22 (Reuters) - A teenage Iranian girl, who fell into a coma earlier this month following an alleged encounter with officers over violating the country’s hijab law, is said to be “brain dead”, Iranian state media reported on Sunday.

    Right groups such as Kurdish-Iranian Hengaw were the first to make Armita Geravand’s hospitalisation public, publishing photos of the 16-year-old girl on social media that showed her unconscious with a respiratory tube and bandage over her head, visibly on life support.

    There have been concerns by rights advocates that Geravand might face the same fate as Mahsa Amini, whose death in the custody of morality police last year sparked months of nationwide anti-government protests that posed one of the boldest challenges to Iran’s clerical rulers.

    Iran has denied that Geravand was hurt after a confrontation on Oct. 1 with officers enforcing the mandatory Islamic dress code in the Tehran metro.

    Iran’s theocratic establishment has imposed restrictions on women’s dress since a popular revolution deposed the secular and Western-backed Shah in 1979.

    Defying the strict Islamic dress code, more women have been appearing unveiled in public places such as malls, restaurants and shops across the country since Amini’s death.

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    • theinspectorst@kbin.social
      33·
      9 months ago

      Some of us are able to comprehend complexity and hold multiple thoughts in our heads at the same time. It’s possible (and the only way to be logically consistent) to understand that:

      • in Iran, Muslim fundamentalists are abusing/killing innocent other Muslims;

      • in Israel, Jewish fundamentalists are abusing/killing innocent Muslims, and Muslim fundamentalists are abusing/killing innocent Jews;

      • in Palestine, Jewish and Muslim fundamentalists are abusing/killing innocent Muslims.

      This isn’t a weekend football game where you have to pick one side, wear their colours and then support them until the final whistle. This is real life, it’s complicated. Don’t turn mass suffering into a sport.