Iran hijab police accused of beating girl into coma

Activists have accused Iran’s morality police of beating a girl for not wearing a hijab and posted a photo purportedly showing her in a coma.

Armita Geravand, 16, collapsed after boarding a Tehran metro train at Shohada station on Sunday.

Human rights group Hengaw alleged that she was subjected to “a severe physical assault” by morality police officers.

It said Armita was being treated at Tehran’s Fajr hospital under tight security, and that the phones of all members of her family had been confiscated.

Read more: BBC News