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Josh Luckhurst

Iran schoolgirl, 16, 'beaten to death after refusing to sing pro-regime anthem'

A 16-year-old Iranian schoolgirl has been beaten to death for failing to sing a pro-regime anthem, it has been reported.

Asra Panahi, 16, died after her Shaheed Girls High School was raided on Thursday and forces demanded the schoolgirls to sing an anthem in honour of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei when the brave youngster was reportedly among of girls to refused to do so.

According to the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers' Trade Associations when the group of girls did not sing the pro-regime anthem, they were beaten by the forces with Panahi later succumbing to her injuries in hospital.

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