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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Hospitalisation of Iranian girl leads to claims against ‘morality police’

Footage of the incident showing a girl being carried off a train by other girls at a metro station
Footage of the incident showed a girl being carried off a train by other girls at a metro station and placed on the platform. Photograph: Tehran Metro

The hospitalisation of a 16-year-old girl in Tehran has led to accusations by a rights group and activists that she was beaten into a coma by Iran’s feared “morality police”, putting the country back on edge a year after mass protests erupted over the treatment of women.

Footage of the incident showed a girl being carried off a train by other girls at a metro station and placed on the platform, where she stays still, apparently unconscious.

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