Khairi Saad was the first person to die in the Jordan’s protests, inspired by democracy uprisings elsewhere in the Arab world. He was killed Friday.

The government claimed Saad as a supporter, while the opposition and his brother, Saeed Saad, disputed that. “He was a follower of the Muslim Brotherhood,” said Saeed. The Brotherhood’s political arm, the Islamic Action Front, is Jordan’s largest opposition group.

Saeed said his brother was “brutally beaten” by police.

He said brother joined anti-government protesters on Thursday and camped out in an Amman square with the crowd.

The clashes with government supporters erupted on Friday .

“He was bringing food to the group when police beat him to death,” he said. He said the immediate cause of the death could have been heart failure as the government maintains, but it was “the result of police beating.” “I saw blood on his face when we took him to the morgue for an autopsy,” he said. “There were clear marks of torture and beatings on his face.” “The cause of the death was heart failure,” said chief forensic doctor Qais Qsous, after an autopsy.

He insisted that there were “no marks of beatings on his face and body.” More than 200 people attended Saad’s funeral Sunday, including the Islamic Action Front and their leftist allies, who vowed to continue protests.

They chanted “the prime minister is the enemy of God.” The opposition wants the prime minister to resign, parliament to be dissolved and new elections to allow for picking a prime minister by popular vote instead of being appointed by the king.