Iranian security forces arresting children in school, reports claim

Fires in the streets of Tehran on Saturday. The protests across the country are now in their fourth week. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Iranian schoolchildren were being arrested inside school premises on Sunday by security forces arriving in vans without licence plates, according to social media reports emerging from the country as protests against the regime entered their fourth week.

The authorities also shut all schools and higher education institutions in Iranian Kurdistan on Sunday – a sign that the state remains concerned about dissent after weeks of protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman.