Teen confronted on metro over hijab is likely 'brain dead'

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. 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. Iran has denied that

Geravand

was hurt after a confrontation on October 1 with officers enforcing the mandatory Islamic dress code in the Tehran metro.