 "Iranian mother left paralysed under waist after being shot by morality police. Here’s what we know")
Yet another horror story is emerging from Iran.
A woman has been left paralysed after being shot by the morality police.
Iranian police opened fire on Arezoo Badri, 31, after she reportedly failed to comply with their order to stop.
Iran has been brutally cracking down on women defying the mandatory dress code established in the aftermath of the 1979 revolution.
Authorities had announced that they would use CCTVs to impound the vehicles of women drivers who did not cover their hair.
An Iranian teenager last year died after an altercation with the country’s notorious morality police.
Armita Geravand, 16, was admitted to hospital with head injuries after the encounter at a metro station in Tehran.
Rights activists accused the morality police of beating the teen for not wearing a hijab.
The latest incident comes a little over two years after the death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of the notorious morality police which sparked widespread protests across Iran.
But what happened? What do we know?
Let’s take a closer look:
What happened?
As per Iran Human Rights Monitor, Badri, 31, was born in Ardabil.
The mother of two was staying in Mazandaran Province’s Babolsar.
As per The Guardian, the incident occurred in the city of Noor on 22 July.
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More ShortsBadri was driving home with her sister when police identified her car as being on an impound list.
According to Iran Human Rights Monitor, the police ordered Badri to stop via loudspeaker.
BBC quoted the Noor police chief Colonel Ahmed Amini as saying that the driver did not comply with the orders to halt.
This, he said, led them to open fire.
A source told the outlet an officer shot at the car’s tyre first before taking aim at Badri – who was shot in the back.
Amini has insisted that the shooting is justified under Iranian law.
As per BBC, it is unclear whether or not Badri was wearing a headscarf at the time.
However, the impound notice against Badri’s car indicates multiple violations of the hijab law.
The cars windows were also tinted.
The Independent quoted Iranian citizen journalist group Mamlekate as saying Badri had fallen into a coma after the shooting.
Badri was first taken to a hospital in Noor.
Then, she was transferred to provincial capital Sari where she had lung surgery.
She was later shifted to Tehran.
“The bullet entered her lung and severely damaged her spinal cord,” the source said.
Doctors only removed the bullet from Badri after 10 days.
Badri has been left paralysed from the waist down.
“Doctors have said it will take months to determine whether she will be permanently paraplegic or not,” the source told BBC.
Iran’s Human Rights Monitor reported that Badri is in the ICU of Tehran’s Vali-e-Asr Hospital.
The outlet quoted specialists as saying the chances of Badri losing her ability to walk are “very high.”
Her condition remains a closely guarded secret.
Security forces are allowing Badri’s relatives to visit her for just a few minutes – that too without their mobiles.
They have barred anyone from taking photos and videos of Badri.
Badri’s phone too has been confiscated and her Instagram account deactivated.
A Tehran-based physician told The Guardian, “We have had no news on her condition because it’s a heavily guarded military hospital and owned by the police. I haven’t got any doctors from the hospital who will give information.”
Masih Alinejad, an exiled Iranian journalist, claimed to have received information about the incident from sources close to Badri’s family.
However, Alinejad claimed that authorities are pressuring Badri’s relatives to stay quiet.
“When I first received the photos from the relative and heard that Arezoo is a mother of two children, I couldn’t stop crying and I kept thinking of my own son,” Alinejad said.
“How will someone explain in the 21st century to those young children that their mother was shot by the police for the crime of not covering her hair?”
With inputs from agencies
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