Also killed was Aminian, a Kurdish student who was shot from behind while taking part in a protest on Thursday, according to three rights groups.<\/p>\n
Two groups – Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) and Kurdish organisation Hengaw – said she was shot in the head, while the Kurdistan Human Rights Network said she was shot in the back. Both Kurdish groups said she was shot by government forces.<\/p>\n
The BBC has been unable to independently verify the circumstances of her death.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old, whose first name has also been spelled Robina or Roubina, was studying textile and fashion at Shariati Technical and Vocational College in Tehran, IHRNGO said.<\/p>\n
“She was a strong girl, a courageous girl, and she was not someone you could control and make decisions for,” her uncle told CNN. “She fought for things she knew were right and fought hard.”<\/p>\n
He added that she was “thirsty for freedom, thirsty for women’s rights”. <\/p>\n
“Overall, she was a girl who was alive, who lived.”<\/p>\n
Members of Aminian’s family travelled from their hometown in Kermanshah, western Iran, to Tehran to identify her body after learning of her death, a source close to the family told INRNGO.<\/p>\n
The family had to search through hundreds of bodies of young people killed in the protests at a location close to her college, the source said.<\/p>\n
“It wasn’t just my daughter; I saw hundreds of bodies with my own eyes,” Aminian’s mother said, in a statement from the source.<\/p>\n
Iranian authorities allegedly initially refused to hand over Aminian’s body to her family, then prevented her burial or mourning ceremonies in their hometown, the source said.<\/p>\n
The family was reportedly forced to bury her along the road between Kermanshah and Kamyaran.<\/p>\n
Iranian leader Khamenei has called anti-government protesters “troublemakers,” while US President Donald Trump has threatened to intervene and said the US military is considering “very strong options”.<\/p>\n
Iran has also accused protesters of being backed by the US and Israel.<\/p>\n
The protests have been the most widespread since an uprising in 2022 sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish woman who was detained by morality police for allegedly not wearing her hijab properly.<\/p>\n
Then, more than 550 people were killed and 20,000 detained, according to human rights groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Also killed was Aminian, a Kurdish student who was shot from behind while taking part in a protest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-366866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}