Iran arrests rights lawyer after she attends funeral girl injured in mysterious metro incident

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On Saturday, rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh — known for defending activists, opposition politicians and women in Iran prosecuted for removing their headscarves — called the death of Geravand “another state murder.”

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00:00 Reza Kandan says his wife Nasreen Sotouda, an Iranian lawyer and human rights defender,

00:06 has been arrested and beaten.

00:08 He says it happened during the funeral for high school student Amita Garawand, who died

00:13 in controversial circumstances in Tehran on Saturday.

00:18 Local media reports say Nasreen was detained for not wearing a veil and for disturbing

00:23 the mental security of society.

00:26 Women in Iran are required by law to cover their heads in public.

00:30 Rights activists suspect 16-year-old Amita was assaulted by the so-called morality police

00:36 on a subway car for the same offence.

00:39 Authorities have denied the allegations.

00:42 They say she fainted and hit her head.

00:45 Amita was in a coma for nearly a month before she died.

00:49 Her family has backed the official version of events.

00:52 [WHOOSH]

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