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A major capital city that welcomes very few British tourists is spending £4bn on a huge upgrade to its Metro railway system. Iran's capital, Tehran ... to lines 2, 4, 6 and 7. Line 8 is a ...
An Iranian teenager who was left in a coma after what activists described as an assault by police on the Tehran metro has no hope of recovery, her father has said. The Kurdish-focused Hengaw ...
Garawand lives in Tehran ... pushed into a metro carriage by female police agents. CCTV footage released by authorities shows a girl being pulled unconscious from the metro train.
An Iranian teenage girl who fell into a coma after an alleged altercation with the country’s morality police on a Tehran metro train has died, state-run media and activists have said.
Armita Geravand, 16, collapsed after boarding a Tehran metro train on 1 October. Activists accused morality police of assaulting her for not wearing a hijab, but authorities insisted she fainted.
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Iranian teenage girl who collapsed and fell into a coma after boarding a Tehran metro train without a ...
In this image from surveillance video aired by Iranian state television, women pull 16-year-old Armita Geravand from a train car on the Tehran Metro in Tehran, Iran. Photo / AP A mysterious injury ...