Protests against chemical attacks targeting schoolgirls in Iran and Rojhilat increase
In the last three months, there have been a series of chemical attacks against at least 38 girls' schools in at least 33 Kurdish and Iranian cities.
Teachers in Iran have taken to the streets to protest chemical attacks targeting schoolgirls.
20 prominent Iranian lawyers and human rights advocates have, in a joint letter, called on the World Health Organization, UNESCO and UNICEF to form an independent joint committee to immediately visit Iran and probe into the serial poisoning of schoolgirls.
In the last three months, there have been a series of chemical attacks against at least 38 girls' schools in at least 12 Kurdish and Iranian cities.
The first case of pupils being poisoned was reported on November 30, at Noor Girls' School in Qom's Yazdanshahr neighbourhood. At least 18 children were poisoned in the attack.
Since then, attacks have been reported in at least 37 other schools in the cities of Qom, Tehran, Ardabil, Kermanshah, Qazvin, Boroujerd, Isfahan, Torbat Jam, Quchan, Vardanjan and Sari, the latest of which was reported on 28 February.
