Protests are carrying on in the city of Ardabil following the senseless killing of 16-year-old Asra Panahi, who was reportedly killed in her classroom because she refused to sing an anthem praising Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei

Protests are carrying on in the city of Ardabil following the senseless killing of 16-year-old Asra Panahi, who was reportedly killed in her classroom because she refused to sing an anthem praising Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. (Read More Here).

Government security forces were said to have stormed her classroom last week and demanded that a group of teen girls take part in singing the pro-regime song, but when the students refused, the agents unleashed a brutal attack on them, including Panahi.

Several girls were left seriously injured, with one of the victims being rushed to the hospital as she remains in critical condition. Panahi, however, had succumbed to her injuries, which has sparked a huge protest in Ardabil, particularly because Iranian officials have claimed the incident never took place while news agencies backed by the government assert she apparently died of a sudden heart failure.

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The protests continued over the weekend and well into the new week, as protestors simultaneously sought justice for the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini who was pulled over during her trip to Tehran for wearing her hijab too loosely that it was exposing strands of her hair. While she was supposed to have been taken to a detention center last month to commit to a “briefing class,” she ended up being transported to a hospital instead, where she died on September 16 following a three-day coma. She, too, was later claimed to have suffered from sudden “heart failure.”