Her name was Rubina Aminian. She was 23 years old, a student of textile design at Shariati Technical College, and she loved fashion. Today, she is a statistic in a morgue—one of hundreds—but the brutal details of her death have become a rallying cry for the Iranian uprising.

Rights group Iran Human Rights (IHR) has confirmed that Rubina was shot in the head at close range by security forces on Thursday evening. Eyewitnesses describe a targeted execution. She was not a threat; she was simply present, part of a crowd chanting for freedom near Shahid Beheshti University.

A Family's Nightmare

Rubina was Kurdish, hailing from the town of Marivan but living in Tehran for her studies. The regime’s treatment of her family in the aftermath of her murder reveals the systematic cruelty of the crackdown.

• The Morgue Ordeal: When her parents traveled from Kermanshah to Tehran, they were initially denied access to her body. Inside the hospital, sources say they saw "hundreds of bodies of young people," a grim confirmation of the scale of the massacre that the internet blackout is trying to hide.
• Secret Burial: Security agencies refused to release her body for a public funeral in her hometown, fearing it would spark fresh protests. Instead, the family was forced to bury her in a remote village near Marivan, under heavy guard and with no mourners allowed.
• The Forensic Evidence: The bullet entered from the back of her head, execution-style. This contradicts the regime’s narrative that protesters are being killed in "crossfire" or by "rioters." It points to a deliberate shoot-to-kill policy authorized at the highest levels.

The Face of the Revolution

Rubina’s image is now spreading on the few channels still open to the outside world. Like Mahsa Amini before her, she represents the crushed potential of Iran’s youth. Her death proves that the regime sees its own brightest children not as the future, but as targets.