PARIS: An Iranian girl aged 16 has been left in a coma and is being treated in hospital under heavy security after an assault on the Tehran subway, a rights group said on Tuesday , blaming the Islamic republic's notorious morality police.
Iranian authorities remain on high alert for any upsurge of social tension just over a year after the death in custody ofwho had been arrested for allegedly violating the strict dress rules for women. It said she was being treated under tight security at Tehran's Fajr hospital and"there are currently no visits allowed for the victim, not even from her family".
Maryam Lotfi, a journalist from the Shargh daily newspaper, sought in the aftermath of the incident to visit the hospital but was immediately detained. She was subsequently released, it added. "Some rumours about a confrontation with metro agents... are not true and CCTV footage refutes this claim," Dorosti told state news agency IRNA.