Iran: Woman left paraplegic after being shot by police over hijab

Both the police and the BBC source said that Ms Badri’s car windows were tinted.

Ms Badri is now in the intensive care unit of the police-owned Vali-e-Asr Hospital in Tehran and under tight security.

According to the source, her family is allowed only brief visits, during which their mobile phones are confiscated. Authorities have prohibited visitors from taking photos or video of Ms Badri – though some have emerged.

The heavy security measures surrounding Ms Badri’s hospitalisation are reminiscent of those of Armita Geravand, a 17-year-old who died in October after spending 28 days in a coma at Fajr Hospital in Tehran, following an alleged altercation with the morality police at an underground station.

Human rights activists said that she was assaulted for not wearing a hijab, an allegation that the Iranian government denies.

Women have been legally required to wear a hijab in Iran since the Islamic revolution of 1979. Penalties for infringements of the law include fines and imprisonment.

Incidents involving the morality police – who are tasked with enforcing the law – continue to be reported while the Women, Life, Freedom movement Ms Amini’s death sparked remains ongoing.

Iranian women have previously told the BBC they were still willing to defy the rule despite the increased risk of punishment.

Recently, CCTV footage showing the violent assault of a 14-year-old girl by hijab enforcement officers in Tehran ignited widespread outrage.

Nafas Hajisharif’s mother told Iran’s Ensaf News that she found her daughter at a morality police station with a “bruised face, swollen lips, a bruised neck, and torn clothes”.