A teenage girl has died after being beaten to death during an anti-hijab demonstration in Iran.
Arnika Ghaem Maghami was reportedly hit from behind by an Iranian security service baton.
Heartbreaking images show the 17-year-old lying on a hospital bed after she reportedly received several blows to the head from security forces during the protest.
Arnika lapsed into a coma and was bran-dead for almost 10 days before she finally passed away on October 22, according to human rights groups and independent Iranian media outlets.
The Iranian Human Rights Center said she was killed by police in a statement issued the day after her death.
While Iranian officials 'falsely' claimed that she had been killed by a fall from a fourth-storey building, they insisted.
A spokesperson said that the teenage girl "died yesterday after being hit by a baton from behind and [it] was falsely told that she was thrown from the fourth floor".
They added: "The security officials deliberately took [her] to the army hospital. [...]"
The Iranian Human Rights Center also said that the Iranian security forces deliberately transferred her to an army hospital to keep the truth hidden.
Protests have been gripping Iran since the death of Mahsa Amini from Saqqez, Kurdistan Province.
The 22-year-old was visiting Tehran when she was arrested by morality police and accused of violating hijab rules on September 13.
She was allegedly beaten while in custody and spent the following days in a coma in the hospital before succumbing in the ICU three days later.
The clinic where she was treated said in a now-deleted social media post that she had been admitted brain-dead.
Alleged medical scans of her skull leaked by hackers showed that she had suffered bone fractures, haemorrhages, and brain oedema.
Anti-regime media are claiming that Mahsa's medical records showing her history of heart disease were faked by the Iranian government.
Protests sparked by her death are ongoing.
At least 201 people, including 28 children, have been killed so far according to the latest figures released by the Iran Human Rights charity on October 12.
