A Kurdish PhD student allegedly beaten into a coma by security police at an anti-regime demo has died in hospital.

Nasrin Ghaderi, 35, was allegedly struck on the head by baton-wielding security police at a street protest in Tehran on 4th November.

She was taken to hospital but died later that day.

Nasrin had moved from her home in Marivan, Kurdistan Province to the Iranian capital Tehran to study for a doctorate in philosophy.

Residents of her hometown took to the streets chanting “Death to Khamenei” – Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei – on 6th November.

Rights groups said security police opened fire on those protesting her death, wounding dozens.

Regime officials allegedly pressured her father to state that Nasrin had died of ‘flu’ and an ‘underlying disease’.

And pro-regime media claimed that one of her in-laws had found her dead after breaking into her home.

Pro-regime media also claimed that Nasrin had a ‘pre-existing heart condition’ and had died from ‘poisoning’.

She was buried in her hometown – as seen in this footage – under the watchful eye of security police.

Iranian ethnic minorities – notably Kurds – are said to have disproportionately suffered from state repression during the ongoing protests.

Mahsa Amini – whose death at the hands of morality police in September sparked the current wave of protests – was also Kurdish.

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