A video of a blood-drenched young woman, purportedly killed in the Tehran protests, has become an Internet symbol of the demonstrations and heightened pressure on Iran in its battle with foreign media. International media have taken pictures from the film which has inspired an avalanche of blog and twitter comment, mainly against Iran's hardline government. After a call spread by Internet to rally at Haft-e Tir square in Tehran to pay tribute to Neda, police on Monday broke up a gathering of about 1,000 people there. <...> The people who originally posted the video on Youtube and Facebook said Neda was shot by a pro-government militia member.That information, like the fate and the identity of the young woman in the video, cannot be independently verified however. ...
A video of a blood-drenched young woman, purportedly killed in the Tehran protests, has become an Internet symbol of the demonstrations and heightened pressure on Iran in its battle with foreign media.
International media have taken pictures from the film which has inspired an avalanche of blog and twitter comment, mainly against Iran's hardline government.
After a call spread by Internet to rally at Haft-e Tir square in Tehran to pay tribute to Neda, police on Monday broke up a gathering of about 1,000 people there. <...>
The people who originally posted the video on Youtube and Facebook said Neda was shot by a pro-government militia member.
That information, like the fate and the identity of the young woman in the video, cannot be independently verified however. ...
