A 16-year-old Iranian schoolgirl, Asra Panahi, died after being beaten by Iranian security forces because she, along with other classmates, refused to sing a hymn dedicated to Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.
The incident was reported on Telegram by the Coordinating Council of the Iranian Teachers' Union, according to which the minor girls were transferred to the hospital after the beating, at the school in Ardabil, in the northwest of the country, after a search by the security forces, who then forced them to sing a hymn dedicated to Khamenei.
According to the union, the girl died as a result of the beating, while in an interview broadcast by a TV channel near the Revolutionary Guards, a man identified as Asra's uncle said that "my niece lost her life from a congenital heart defect".
The union denounced "the brutal behavior of security forces who last week raided various schools in the country after students were filmed without headscarves or chanting slogans against Khamenei". The protests have been going on for more than a month, since the 22-year-old