A person in Cairo looks at a tweet about the reported death of 15-year-old Iranian girl Asra Panahi, on October 20, 2022. The 15-year-old Iranian girl died on October 13 after being beaten during a raid by"plainclothes officers" at Shahed High School in the northwestern city of Ardabil, the Co-ordinating Council of Teachers Syndicates said. AFP
Asra Panahi died on October 13, after "plainclothes officers attacked" Shahed High School in the northwestern city of Ardabil, the Co-ordinating Council of Teachers Syndicates said. Some pupils, who started "chanting slogans against discrimination and inequality," were "subjected to violence and insults by plainclothes and veiled women," the union said."After that one of the pupils named Asra Panahi unfortunately passed away in hospital and a number of students were arrested," it said, adding the beating left another pupil in a coma.