Film about Iranian protest victim Neda Agha-Soltan beats regime's censors

[Ed Barrow]

Source: The Guardian

Iran is jamming satellite broadcasts in attempts to stop people seeing a new film telling the story of Neda Agha-Soltan, the young woman who was shot dead during the mass protests that followed last summer's disputed presidential election.

Viewers in Tehran complained of jamming and power cuts on Wednesday and yesterday when the Voice of America Persian TV network broadcast the documentary For Neda, featuring the first film interviews with the family of the 27-year-old.

The 70-minute film, made by Mentorn Media for HBO and being screened in the US this month, has rapidly gone viral in Iran in the run-up to next Saturday's anniversary of the disputed elections that triggered the protests. It is available on YouTube so can be seen by anyone with access to the internet.

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Neda became an instant symbol of Iran's struggle for democracy. On 20 June, within hours of her killing – described as "probably the most widely witnessed death in human history" – mobile phone images of her bloodstained face were being held up by demonstrators in Tehran and all over the world.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/04/iran-protest-victim-neda-agha-soltan-film

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Here's the youtube link to the film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F48SinuEHIk

[sam sarrha]

1. She MURDERED by a guy who actually paid the Police to SNIPE demonstrators, she was told by friends

to put on plain muslim clothes and cover her face before she went out because some sniper was killing only pretty women..

the sniper actually paid for like a 4 day permit to murder people..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Neda_Agha-Soltan
.."Hejazi, standing one metre 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 (government paramilitary). The militiaman, identified as Abbas Kargar Javid, (Persian: عباس کارگر جاوید - Abbās Kārgar Jāvɪd)<20> 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> A recent documentary on the shooting contained a previously unseen clip of demonstrators capturing the militiaman seconds after the shooting..."

i hope they removed that rat bastard from the gene pool later on...