Iranian Teenager Reported Brain Dead by State Media
Armita Geravand, the Iranian girl who was dragged out of a subway car unconscious shortly after entering with her hair uncovered, has been pronounced brain dead, Iran's state-owned media reported on Sunday.
Since her collapse on Oct. 1, she has been in a coma, but on Sunday, doctors said that they were not hopeful she would be saved, according to Tasnim News, a semiofficial agency affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards.
Her case has evoked similarities with that of Mahsa Amini, who died last year in the custody of the morality police after being accused of violating Iran's dress code, prompting a nationwide wave of anti-government protests.
Two journalists, Niloufar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi, who covered Ms. Amini's case, were sentenced on Sunday to seven and six years in prison for "cooperating with the `hostile' government of America," according to the semiofficial Fars News Agency.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/23/world...-dead.html
Armita Geravand, the Iranian girl who was dragged out of a subway car unconscious shortly after entering with her hair uncovered, has been pronounced brain dead, Iran's state-owned media reported on Sunday.
Since her collapse on Oct. 1, she has been in a coma, but on Sunday, doctors said that they were not hopeful she would be saved, according to Tasnim News, a semiofficial agency affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards.
Her case has evoked similarities with that of Mahsa Amini, who died last year in the custody of the morality police after being accused of violating Iran's dress code, prompting a nationwide wave of anti-government protests.
Two journalists, Niloufar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi, who covered Ms. Amini's case, were sentenced on Sunday to seven and six years in prison for "cooperating with the `hostile' government of America," according to the semiofficial Fars News Agency.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/23/world...-dead.html
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"