Iranian police have been accused of staging a twisted suicide stunt to fake the death of a woman said to have been beaten to death at a protest.
Atefeh Noami's body was found under a blanket on her apartment balcony in Karaj.
Security forces claim she had taken her own life before quickly organising her funeral with just a few female relatives present.
Atefeh's family are now claiming that she was killed by security forces during demonstrations on November 26.
The family also claim that police deliberately arranged her body and some props in the apartment to make it look like suicide.
Her brother Mohammed Amin Noami has reportedly claimed that his sister did not want to take her own life and that her suicide was staged.
Amin Noami - who lives in Austria - told independent news broadcaster Iranwire: "She liked people to be together and was very persistent in her social connections with others.
"Whenever people had problems, he helped them. We lost our mother and father at a young age, so my sister really liked helping the elderly.
"She did housework and shopping for the elderly and took care of them."
There has been no medical report issued by the medical examiner, it has been reported.
This isn't the first time that Iran's security forces have been accused of trying to cover up the death of someone who is believed to have died in protests.
One was alleged to have thrown herself from a balcony and another is claimed to have died from eating tinned fish that was by its sell-by date.
It comes as Iranian forces continue to crack down on protests following the death of Mahsa Amini.
The 22-year-old died after she was arrested by the morality police, 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 on September 16.
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.
Independent Iranian media have claimed that Mahsa's medical records showing her history of heart disease were faked by the Iranian government.
Numbers differ regarding how many people have been killed since the protests began.
The ongoing protests in Iran have killed at least 419 people, including 51 children, and injured at least 1,160, according to independent estimates.
It is also understood that more than 17,500 people have been arrested so far.
