Asra Panahi

اسرا پناهی

2007–2022 · 4 years ago

Born: 5 March 2007
Taken: 13 October 2022
Age: only 15 years old
From: Ardabil, Ardabil

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Their life

Asra was born in March 2007 and was a pupil at Shahed girls' high school in Ardabil. Beyond that, very little about her life has been made public; the pressure the regime put on those around her after her death is part of the reason.

How the regime took them

In October 2022 schoolgirls in Ardabil who were sent to a pro-regime rally chanted against the regime instead, and security forces turned on them. On 13 October, the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers' Unions said, plainclothes forces attacked Shahed high school, arrested students, and Asra died in the attack; HRANA records that she died that day in hospital (the Boroumand Center gives 12 October).

The regime denied she was at school that day and put a man on television, introduced as her uncle, to say she had a heart condition.