No Country for Schoolgirls: How Iran is crushing dissent by killing teens
FirstpostSixteen-year-old Asra Panahi died after students were assaulted in a raid at a high school in Iran’s Ardabil. The world must know we fight against Taliban & Islamic Republic together.#مهسا_امینی pic.twitter.com/yv2OCbZe1V — Masih Alinejad 🏳️ October 14, 2022 Before this, on 23 September, there were reports that 16-year-old Sarina Esmailzadeh, who posted popular vlogs on YouTube, was killed when the security forces beat her with batons at a protest in Gohardasht in Alborz province. @Vahid #SarinaEsmaeilzadeh #MahsaAmini pic.twitter.com/WJYFJltQXQ — Reza Shirkavand October 6, 2022 A statement by Amnesty International also claimed that Esmailzadeh’s family had been subjected to “intense harassment to coerce them into silence” — a claim that the authorities deny, saying she Iran denies this and says she took her own life by jumping off a building. Amnesty International has reported that Iran’s security forces have killed at least 23 children since the protests broke out on 16 September over Mahsa Amini’s death. pic.twitter.com/DsiVGUDPo6 — Amnesty International October 14, 2022 Iran on boil Since the death of Mahsa Amini, Iran’s young and old have been protesting the autocratic regime with women waving their headscarves in the air, confronting male police officers and shouting slogans.