Iranian security forces had reportedly left the teenager in a coma.
Iranian authorities have remained on high alert for any upsurge of social tension revolving anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death.
Armita Garawand, 16, was attacked on Sunday by female police officers, according to the Kurdish-focused rights group Hengaw. The nationwide protest movement had rattled Iran’s clerical leadership before dwindling in the face of a crackdown that according to activists saw hundreds killed and thousands arrested.
The case has become the subject of intense discussion on social media, with a purported video of the incident said by some to show Garawand, apparently unveiled, being pushed into the metro by police agents and then an immobile body pulled out.Norway-based NGO Iran Human Rights urged “an independent international investigation… to establish the details” of the incident, accusing Tehran of “a long history of distorting facts and concealing evidence of their crimes”.