Iranian schoolgirls take up battlecry as protests continue

As country mourns teenager killed in demonstrations, video shows how female-led protests have spread to the classroom

High school girls have become the latest Iranians to join anti-government protests in large numbers, as the country mourned a teenager killed in the first days of protests.

Nika Shahkarami, who lived in Tehran and would have turned 17 on Sunday, vanished in September. Her family found her body in a detention centre’s morgue 10 days later, BBC Persian reported.

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