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A 16-year-old girl tragically took her own life in Iran after her school threatened her with expulsion after she was filmed dancing without a hijab.
An image of Arezoo Khavari’s final moments, showing her balancing on the edge of a building, has been circulating on X, with several social media users condemning Iran’s strict dress code laws.
The death of Arezoo, who was an Afghan national living in the Iranian city of Shahrari, was confirmed by Tehran’s General Department of Education in a statement that said the girl was “injured due to a fall from the top of a building.” residential”. ‘.
‘After being immediately transferred to the hospital and despite the efforts of the medical team, she died,’ the statement explains.
While the department said “the motivation and reasons for this action had not been determined,” respected Persian human rights activist Masih Alinjad said in a post on from a school trip for violating the dress code by wearing jeans instead of the prescribed uniform.”
Arezoo Khavari’, 16, tragically took her own life in Iran after she was sent home from a school trip for not wearing a hijab.
The teenager had also faced repeated harassment from the school for not adhering to its dress code policy, Masih alleged and also claimed Arezoo had been threatened with expulsion after she was filmed dancing without a hijab.
Following Arezoo’s death, her father filed a formal complaint against the school accusing it of negligence and insensitivity, activist Masih said.
Commenting further on the teenager’s death, Masih said: ‘The Taliban deprive girls of an education, and Iran’s clerics crush a girl’s spirit for letting her hair fly in the wind, for dancing, for choosing her own clothes.
Arezoo’s voice, like that of many others, will be buried under the loudest headlines in the world. Shame on Western leaders who shake hands with the Islamic Republic and the Taliban, thinking they can reform this cruelty.
‘We, the women of Iran and Afghanistan, want an end to these gender apartheid regimes. Stay with us, not our murderers!’
The teenager’s tragic death and the circumstances surrounding it come just days after an Iranian woman who stripped to her underwear in protest of hijab laws was arrested.
The unidentified young woman was seen in footage walking around the campus of the science and research branch of Tehran’s Islamic Azad University on Saturday before security guards detained her.
An unidentified student was arrested Saturday in Iran after she was seen walking around the campus of the science and research branch of Tehran’s Islamic Azad University in her underwear.
The student reportedly suffered serious injuries following the assault during her arrest.
People supporting the Iranian community participate in the Freedom Rally for Iran demonstration against the Iranian regime on February 22, 2023 in Rome, Italy.
Mahsa Amini, 22, died on September 16, three days after falling into a coma following her arrest.
The video that circulated widely on social media shows the woman sitting and pacing with her arms crossed around campus in her underwear.
A growing number of women have defied authorities by discarding their veils following nationwide protests that followed the September 2022 death of a young Iranian Kurdish woman in the custody of morality police for allegedly violating hijab rules.
Mahsa Amini, 22, died after being captured by the moral police for not wearing the hijab correctly.
Her death led to mass protests known as ‘Women’. life, freedom’ that lasted months in the country.
A year later, in October 2023, an Iranian teenager named Armita Geravand was injured in a suspicious incident on the Tehran subway without covering her head.
He later died in hospital after falling into a coma.