Iranian police have been filmed savagely beating a protester before shooting him at point-blank range.
The video, widely circulated online, shows a man being kicked and beaten by a group of officers in helmets holding batons, as dozens of officers on motorbikes creep through a small road at night.
As the officers continue to beat the man, they drag him off the street and into an underpass.
One officer then rams his motorcycle into the helpless man lying on the floor, running him over.
The distressing footage, captured from a nearby building at night on a mobile phone in a district of Tehran, then shows another officer with a rifle shooting the man.
The identity and current condition of the protester is unknown.
Iranian authorities are continuing to stamp down on anti-regime demonstrations across the country that were sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini.
Dozens of officers riding motorbikes are filmed beating the protester as he lay helpless on the ground
An officer on a motorbike runs the man over as other officers kick and beat the man
Dozens of officers on motorbikes creep down a road in Tehran, taking it in turn to beat and kick the protester.
The man lays motionless on the ground after being run over and shot by Iranian officers in an under pass at night in Tehran.
Iranian authorities said on Wednesday that they have ordered an investigation into the video.
Human rights groups said this exposed the sheer brutality of the Iranian police repression against protesters.
The countrywide protests were sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini who died in custody after being beaten and arrested by the notorious ‘morality police’ in Tehran for not wearing the hijab in accordance with government standards.
The nation-wide protests are seen as the biggest challenge to the Islamic republic’s leadership since the 1979 revolution.
Dozens of Iranian officers file past the man, taking it in turns to beat him.
The video shows the man being savagely beaten by Iranian protesters before he is shot, purportedly filmed in Tehran.
Activists say dozens have been killed and thousands arrested in a crackdown by the security forces who have been accused of firing on protesters at close range, bludgeoning them with batons and other abuses.
Human rights group, Amnesty International said: ‘This shocking video sent from Tehran is another horrific reminder that the cruelty of Iran’s security forces knows no bounds.
‘Amid a crisis of impunity, they’re given free rein to brutally beat and shoot protesters,’ it added, calling on the UN Human Rights Council to ‘urgently investigate these crimes’.
Iran’s police force announced in a statement published by state news agency IRNA that an order had been issued to ‘investigate the exact time and place of the incident and identify the offenders.’
Mahsa Amini, 22, was killed by the Islamic republic’s so-called morality police in September, and was beaten for not wearing the hijab in accordance with government standards.
Parmis Hamnava (left) and Sadaf Movahedi (right) are just two of many young women who have been beaten to death by Iranian security forces.
‘The police absolutely do not approve of violent and unconventional behaviour and will deal with the offenders according to the rules,’ the statement claimed.
The emergence of this video follows the death of many other protesters demonstrating against the regime.
Iranian security forces killed schoolgirl Parmis Hamnava last week after she ripped portraits of the founder of the Islamic Republic from her schoolbooks. Sadaf Movahedi was also bludgeoned to death last Monday night for walking home from school during protests for women’s rights in Iran.
According to an updated toll issued Wednesday from the Norway-based Iran Human Rights NGO, 176 people have been killed in the crackdown on the protests sparked by Amini’s death.
Another 101 people have lost their lives in a distinct protest wave in Zahedan in the southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan province.
IHR has warned that these figures are a minimum, with information slow to flow in due to disruptions of the internet by the authorities.
Thousands of people have been arrested nationwide in the crackdown on the protests, rights activists say, while Iran’s judiciary has said 1,000 people have already been charged in connection with what it describes as ‘riots’.
The trial of five men charged with offences that can carry capital punishment over the protests opened Saturday in Tehran.
‘Instead of accepting people’s legal demands, the Islamic republic is clamping down with repressive measures and show trials,’ said IHR director, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam.
‘The charges and sentences have no legal validity and their sole purpose is to commit more violence create societal fear,’ he added.
The nation-wide protests have been fuelled by anger over the strict Islamic dress code for women in Iran, which the police who arrested Amini were enforcing.
While there have been outbursts of protests in Iran over the past two decades the current movement has regularly broken taboos, united social classes and largely spread nationwide.