Neda Agha-Soltan... Nedā (ندا) is the Persian word for "voice", "calling" or "divine message," and she has been referred to as the "voice of Iran"... On June 20, 2009, at around 6:30 p.m., Neda Agha-Soltan was sitting in her Peugeot 206 in traffic on Kargar Avenue in the city of Tehran.[6] She was accompanied by her music teacher and close friend, Hamid Panahi, and two others, who remain unidentified.[10][11] The four were on their way to participate in the protests against the outcome of the 2009 Iranian presidential election.[12] The car's air conditioner wasn't working well, so she stopped her car some distance from the main protests and got out on foot to escape the heat. She was standing and observing the sporadic protests in the area when she was shot in the chest.[13]
As captured on amateur video,[6] she collapsed to the ground... Dr. Arash Hejazi, who said he had been present during the incident (but has since fled Iran out of fear of government reprisals):[15]
"At 19:05 June 20th Place: Kargar Ave., at the corner crossing Khosravi St. and Salehi st. A young woman who was standing aside with her father [sic, later identified as her music teacher] watching the protests was shot by a Basij member hiding on the rooftop of a civilian house. He had clear shot at the girl and could not miss her. However, he aimed straight her heart. I am a doctor, so I rushed to try to save her. But the impact of the gunshot was so fierce that the bullet had blasted inside the victim?s chest, and she died in less than two minutes. The protests were going on about one kilometer away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gas used among them, towards Salehi St. The film is shot by my friend who was standing beside me."[2]... Her last words were, "I'm burning, I'm burning!"[11] She died en route to Tehran's Shariati hospital.[16] Hejazi, standing one meter away from her when she was shot, tried to staunch her wound with his hands. Hejazi said nearby members of the crowd pulled a man from his motorcycle while shouting: "We got him, we got him," disarmed him, obtained his identity card and identified him as a member of the Basij militia. The militiaman was shouting, "I didn't want to kill her." The protesters let him go, but they kept the alleged killer's identity card and took many photographs of him.[3]
After being pronounced dead at Shariati hospital, Agha-Soltan was buried at the Behesht-e Zahra cemetery in southern Tehran; she was denied a proper funeral by government authorities.[32][33] The authorities had allegedly set aside empty graves for those killed during the protests. Her family agreed to the removal of her organs for transplanting to medical patients.[13] The Iranian government has issued a ban on collective prayers in mosques for Agha-Soltan in the aftermath of the incident.[34] Soona Samsami, the executive director of the Women's Freedom Forum, who has been relaying information about the protests inside Iran to the international media, told the foreign press that Agha-Soltan's immediate family were threatened by authorities if they permitted a gathering to mourn her.[35] Samsami stated, "They were threatened that if people wanted to gather there the family would be charged and punished."[35]
Caspian Makan (Agha-Soltan's fianc?) told BBC: ?Neda had said that even if she lost her life and got a bullet in her heart, she would carry on?.[36]
Funeral
About 70 mourners gathered outside Niloufar mosque in Abbas Abad, where the Agha-Soltan family attended services. A leaflet posted on the mosque's door read, "There is no commemoration here for Neda Agha Soltan." Many in the crowd wore black. Some recited poems. After about ten minutes, 20 Basij paramilitary arrived on motorcycles and dispersed the attendees.[40]
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