Arezu Badri, a female car passenger who was injured after being shot by the police in Noor County, has not fully recovered after nearly three weeks.
After about 10 days, doctors were able to remove the bullet from Arezu Badri‘s back, but her lungs and spinal cord have sustained “serious damage”: photo from social media.
The police chief of Noor County in Mazandaran Province announced on July 23 that the woman’s car, a Pride 111, was stopped at 11 PM on July 22 using “the law of weapon use.”
However, in its usual practice in such situations, the police force blamed the incident on the injured citizen, stating that she had “fled” from the police.
Following the release of this news, which triggered widespread reactions on social media, various sources identified the woman as Arezu Badri, a mother of two, and it was reported that she had been “paralyzed” as a result of the police shooting.
It is reported that Arezu Badri is currently hospitalized in the ICU at Vali-Asr Hospital in Tehran “under heavy security.”
This 31-year-old woman “lost the ability to walk after being shot in the back while driving.”
According to this report, after about ten days, doctors managed to remove the bullet from Arezu Badri’s back, but her lungs and spinal cord suffered “serious damage.”
Since the 2022 protests, which were sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old girl, while in the custody of the Morality Police and lasted for months, protests and criticism of the police’s violent treatment of Iranian women have increased.
Numerous citizen reports indicate that incidents of injury due to violent encounters and even the death of citizens from beatings or shootings by the police have continued to occur over the past two years.
News related to Arezu Badri mentioned that she and the other female passenger in the car were not wearing the compulsory hijab enforced by the regime.
Similarly, Armita Geravand, a teenage student in Tehran was rendered unconscious due to blows from security forces after boarding a Tehran metro train without a hijab on September 30, 2023. She died after being in a coma for about a month.
During the time this teenager was in the hospital, information about her was under the complete control of government security forces, and reports indicated that her family was under severe pressure.
