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 - with young women emerging as powerful voices of dissent against the regime.
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On Friday, reports began to surface of the death of a second teenage girl at the hands of security forces in Iran. Sarina Esmailzadeh, a 16-year-old who posted popular vlogs on YouTube, was killed when the security forces beat her with batons at a protest in Gohardasht in Alborz province on 23 September, according to Amnesty International.

The news came after allegations surrounding the circumstances of another 16-year-old Nika Shakarami’s death had been circulating on social media. She was reported missing on 20 September after joining a protest in Tehran, amid claims that she had been beaten, raped and her body stolen and buried by the regime in a village away from her family.

Although the authorities claimed that Shakarami killed herself, her mother has accused the security services of murdering her, claiming that they tried to force her to say her daughter had taken her own life.

Separately, officials had also told Esmailzadeh’s family that investigations had concluded her death was a result of suicide. Citing a primary source, a statement by Amnesty claimed that her family had been subjected to “intense harassment to coerce them into silence”, claims denied by Iranian officials.

Protests started in Kurdish regions of Iran after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of the country’s feared morality police who had detained her for being in violation of the dress code for women.

Iran’s leaders have attempted to characterise the protests as a foreign plot, and a separatist push by a Kurdish minority. However, a groundswell of people from all walks of life continues to fuel a movement that is drawn from widespread social grievance.

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