Iranian Media Reports Hundreds of Schoolgirls Poisoned

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Students attend class in Tehran, Iran, November 22, 2021. © 2021 Sobhan Farajvan/Pacific Press/Shutterstock Iran’s reformist Etemad news agency reported on March 1 that over the past three months, hundreds of schoolgirls have been poisoned in at least 58 schools in 10 provinces across the country. In the past two days, at least three schools in Tehran described students being poisoned by toxic gas emissions, Shargh Daily paper reported. Videos circulated on social media appear to show students from one affected school chanting slogans in protest and plainclothes officers…

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