Another student who died in Iran: “Butchered because she refused to sing pro-regime music”

after the case of Mahsa Aminithe young woman whose death in custody has sparked protests across Iran for weeks, and 16-year-old Nika Shakarami, whose lifeless body was found in Khorramabad, in the west of the country, after participating in one of the many attacks held after the death of Mahsa herself, another thorny issue shakes theWill.

The 16 year old student Asra Panahi she would have been killed by the Iranian security services for having refused to sing a pro-regime song after his school was searched last week, sparking more protests across the country this weekend. To report it is the Guardian.

According to the Coordinating Council of Trade Associations of Iranian Teachers, the 16-year-old died after security forces raided the Shahed girls’ school in Ardabil on October 13 and asked a group of girls to sing a hymn This one praised the supreme leader from Iran, theAyatollah Ali Khamenei. The students, however, would have refused, triggering the violent reaction of the guards: some young women were beaten and others arrested. Asra reportedly died in hospital on Friday from injuries sustained during the beating.

Iranian officials have denied responsibility for their own security forces and, after the young student’s death sparked outrage across Iran, a man identified as her uncle appeared on state TV channels claiming that Asra “died of a congenital heart condition”.

According to the latest report by Iran’s Human Rights group, 215 people, including 27 minors, have been killed across the country since the protests began exactly a month ago. The aim is to shed some light on death of Mahsa Amini, took place under unclear circumstances in a prison in tehran Last September 16: Amini was arrested for wearing the veil incorrectly and protesters hypothesize that she was killed in a beating by the police (in Iran, women are required by law to wear the veil in public places).

In recent weeks, the protest has moved first in university and then in schools. Lots of videos filmed in classrooms with students wavinghijab, they tear up pictures of Iranian supreme leaders and shout anti-regime slogans. The response from the Iranian authorities was not long in coming: several raids on schools across Iran since last week, with videos that appear to show agents forcibly entering classrooms, pulling out female students, arresting and pushing them. to fly and shoot. tear gas in school buildings.