One of the victims of the crackdown against massive anti-government protests in Iran has been identified as a young student who was shot in the back of the head during the demonstrations.
According to Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO), an independent, Norway-based non-profit that monitors the human rights situation in the country, 23-year-old Kurdish woman Rubina Aminian joined a protest last Thursday after leaving Shariati College, where she studied fashion and textiles.
She was shot in the head "from close range from behind".
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IHRNGO said it had been told of Aminian's death by sources close to her family, who in turn had spoken to eyewitnesses at the protests.
Verifying information in Iran during the protests has been made significantly difficult in recent days, after the government cut internet access in the country on Thursday.
According to IHRNGO, Aminian's family travelled more than 500km from their home city of Kermanshah to the capital, Tehran, to identify her body.
Her mother said, "It wasn't just my daughter; I saw hundreds of bodies with my own eyes".
Video shared by the organisation on social media appears to show dozens, perhaps hundreds, of people walking through rows of bodybags, searching for loved ones killed in the protests.
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"The family was taken to a location near the college where they were confronted with the bodies of hundreds of young people killed during the protests," IHRNGO reported.
"Most of the victims were young people between 18 and 22 years old, who had been shot at close range in the head and neck by government forces.
"At first, the family was not allowed to identify Rubina's body, and later they were not permitted to take her body with them."
According to the organisation, the family was eventually able to reclaim her body but, after returning to find their home "surrounded" by intelligence forces, were forced to bury her alongside a road, and have been unable to hold a funeral or any mourning ceremonies.
Those close to Aminian said she was "a young woman full of joy for life and passionate about fashion and clothing design, whose dreams were buried by the violent repression of the Islamic Republic", IHRNGO said.
Bodybuilder and father of three among those killed
Ebrahmin Yousifi, a father of three children, was killed after he was shot in the head during protests in Kermanshah in western Iran on Thursday.
His cousin told CNN that his family does not know if the 42-year-old hospital worker's body has been returned due to the internet blackout.
"Even our relatives in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq have been unable to reach anyone in Iran to confirm whether his body has been returned," he said.
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Former bodybuilding champion Mehdi Zatparvar is also among the dead.
Zatparvar, 39, was killed in the city of Rasht in north-central Iran during a protest on Thursday, according to Norwegian human rights group Hengaw.
What started as protests in two major markets in Tehran on December 28 in response to the plunging local currency, the rial, has since escalated into massive anti-government demonstrations across the country.
Authorities have unleashed a brutal crackdown, particularly since January 3 when Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said "rioters must be put in their place".
Exactly how many citizens have been killed or detained is uncertain, in part due to the internet blackout.
IHRNGO says 192 people have been confirmed dead, but added the actual death toll may be as high as 2000.
The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency says 538 people have been killed and 10,600 detained.
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