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Published 11:13 30 Sept 2022 BST
Updated 11:32 30 Sept 2022 BST
Hadis' friend believes she was shot "because of her hijab and defending the hijab and women's right to freedom in veiling".
The friend also alleged authorities "didn't let her family see her".
"Several nurses [...] told her family to run, because Hadis had been at the protests so they might also be targeted if the police came.
"The husband of one of Hadis' sisters works for the Basij [an Iranian paramilitary volunteer militia], so they let him go into the mortuary to do the formal identification. Only him."
https://twitter.com/RadharamnDas/status/1574197072479518720
According to Hadis' friend, the TikToker's "crying mother and sisters" were allowed to see her face on Friday morning, but only to "make sure they were burying the right person."
According to reports, her mother has said: "My daughter was killed because of the hijab, because of Mahsa Amini.
"She went to protest and was killed, hit by bullets, in her heart, in her stomach, in her neck. When we looked at her body, her face and body were bruised," Hadis' mother said via the TikToker's sister's Instagram.
Hadis' mother also claimed authorities "shouted slurs" at them, and "refused to tell [them] where to find her body" or "give [them] her body".
https://twitter.com/maasalan/status/1574287543960739840
Hadis wasn't allowed a public - or "real" as her friend put it - funeral because of an agreement between the authorities and her family.
Her friend said: "After she was buried, her sisters Afsoon and Shirin decided to publish her photos and tell people she was shot.
"The authorities didn't want people to say she was shot, they were told to say she'd died in a car crash, or a brain injury, that she'd died a natural death."
https://twitter.com/AlinejadMasih/status/1574017238310453253
Despite the accusations against Iranian authorities, Ebrahim Raisi, the president of the Middle Eastern country, has said an investigation will take place into Hadis' death.
However, the Iranian president warned that action will be taken against anyone who threatens the country's public security.
The TikToker's friend concluded: "I and her family and friends would like everyone to hear the name of Hadis and know that my friend went bravely and became a martyr."
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