Protests have broken out in Iran after a young woman died following her detention by morality police.
Mahsa Amini fell into a coma while in custody in Tehran after being arrested by officers enforcing the country’s strict hijab rules.
Police said the 22-year-old was taken to hospital after she allegedly had a heart attack.
Pro-reform news websites quoted an uncle of Ms Amini as saying she had no history of heart disease.
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has asked for the cause of the incident to be investigated with “urgency and special attention”, state media has reported.
The Center for Human Rights in Iran said Ms Amini had been visiting her family in the capital when she was arrested on Tuesday for her “alleged inappropriate hijab”.
“Her family was told that she was being taken for ‘re-education’ and would be released later that night,” the organisation said.
Officers apparently found fault with her hijab, or headscarf, according to reports on social media.
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