Iran’s security forces have demanded a GBP 4,000 bounty to hand over the body of a man they are accused of shooting dead in the street, it has emerged.

Mehran Shakari was killed in Karaj, the capital of Alborz Province, in north-western Iran, on Thursday, 3rd November.

Shocking images show him lying in the street in a pool of blood.

A second image shows his body loaded onto the back of a pickup truck partially covered by a demonstration banner with armed security police looking on.

Now the Iranian authorities have reportedly demanded IRR 200 million (GBP 4,178) to release his body to his grieving family.

They have also reportedly threatened them, saying they would only hand over Mehran’s body if the family agree to bury him without any ceremony.

Some reports have stated that Mehran’s body has already been buried in a secret location by the authorities.

Iranian forces have been cracking down on waves of civil disorder following the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, from Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, who was on a visit to Tehran when she was arrested by morality police, accused of violating hijab rules on 13th September.

She was allegedly beaten while in custody and spent the following days in a coma in the hospital before succumbing in the ICU on 16th September.

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 protests have so far claimed between 304 and 356 lives and injured at least 1,160, according to independent estimates.

It is also understood that over 14,000 people have so far been arrested.