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What happened next is where the accounts divide, and honesty requires setting both out. According to eyewitnesses and her family, Jina was beaten inside the police van and at the detention centre, collapsed there, and was taken to hospital already in a critical state, where she fell into a coma and died days later. The Iranian authorities have consistently denied any mistreatment, insisting she suffered a heart attack linked to a pre-existing medical condition. In March 2024, after eighteen months of gathering evidence, an independent United Nations fact-finding mission concluded that she had died as a result of beatings by the state morality police, a finding the Islamic Republic rejected. Photographs of Jina unconscious in a hospital bed, released by her family, spread across the country within hours, and a private grief became a public reckoning.