Update on condition of Armita Geravand, 16, could revive protests that followed the death last year of Mahsa Amini.

Sources, Guardians, BBC, The Global and Mail: 

Ateenage girl from Iran, who fell into a coma earlier this month after an encounter with morality police for not wearing a hijab, is said to be "brain dead," according to the regime state media.

Armita Geravand, 16, was captured on surveillance cameras inside a metro station in Tehran on Oct. 1 without a head covering, which is mandatory for women under the regime in Iran's strict dress code. The footage, released by a state-run news agency, shows her entering a subway car with two female friends. Moments later, Geravand was being dragged out of the train, unconscious.

Kurdish human rights organization Hengaw released a photo showing the 16-year-old in hospital, intubated and in a coma, days after the train incident. Hengaw claims Geravand suffered a “severe physical assault” at the hands of Iranian morality police for not wearing a head covering.

Follow-ups on the latest health condition of Geravand indicate that her condition of being brain dead seems certain despite the efforts of the medical staff," state-aligned news agency Tasnim reported Sunday.

The news came as the regime court handed out long prison sentences to two journalists over their coverage of Amini’s death, state media reported.

The regime state news agency IRNA said Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi were sentenced to 13 and 12 years in prison respectively on charges including collaboration with the US government and acting against national security.

Lawyers for the two journalists have rejected the charges. Hamedi was detained after she took a picture of Amini’s parents hugging each other in a Tehran hospital where their daughter was lying in a coma, and Mohammadi after she covered Amini’s funeral in her Kurdish home town of Saqez, where the protests began.

IRNA said the “issued verdicts” were subject to appeal. If confirmed, the time the women have already spent at the Evin prison, where most political prisoners are held, would be deducted from the sentences, according to the judiciary’s Mizan news agency.

The report on Geravand could revive countrywide protests sparked by the death of the 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini while in the custody of “morality police” in September last year for allegedly violating the dress code