Iranian schoolgirl, 16, is 'beaten to death for refusing to sing pro-regime anthem'

Iranian authorities have been accused of brutally beating a teenage schoolgirl to death for refusing to sing a pro-regime song.

Asra Panahi, 16, died after a raid at the Shahed girls high school on Thursday when security forces demanded pupils sing an anthem in honour of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, it was claimed.

When a group of girls refused, authorities beat them and hospitalised them, the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations said. Panahi later died from…