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The Washington Spectator (blog)
March 17, 2018
... System,” the late Edward S. Herman—formerly professor emeritus of nance at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania—and researcher David Peterson explored discrepancies in media coverage of the killing of 27-year-old Neda Agha-Soltan, shot by Iranian security forces, and that of 19-year-oldÃâà...
The Verge
February 12, 2018
Facing brutal opposition by police, they also took to Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, sharing protest plans or videos of slain protester Neda Agha-Soltan. Suddenly, access to digital platforms seemed like a global force for democracy. An activist and computer scientist living in Canada, Bangi seized theÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
January 28, 2018
The irony in Iran's recent explosion of protests was that it was the country's theocratic government itself that provided the oxygen that fueled their startlingly swift spread, blazing from city to city. For the past four years, authorities have encouraged wider internet use, allowing service providers to offer 3G andÃâà...
Boston Herald
January 3, 2018
FILE - In this June 15, 2009 file photo, hundreds of thousands of supporters of leading opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, turn out to protest the result of the election, in Azadi (Freedom) square, Tehran, Iran. Nearly nine years ago, the upheaval was stunning. Massive crowds marchedÃâà...
Haaretz
September 20, 2017
This article was originially published on December 26, 2009 and republished after PM Netanyahu referenced Neda Agha-Soltan during his address at the United Nations General Assembly on September 19, 2017. The British newspaper Times named an Iranian woman killed in post-election riots in Iran asÃâà...
TIME
April 21, 2011
We'll never know the man who stood in front of those tanks in Tiananmen Square, but we do know Neda Agha-Soltan: we've looked into her eyes. For one gut-wrenching moment, as she lay dying from the bullet in her heart on that Tehran side street last June, Neda stared directly into the cell phone that was about toÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
June 22, 2009
Neda Agha-Soltan, 26, was shot dead Saturday evening near the scene of clashes between pro-government militias and demonstrators who allege rampant vote fraud in the reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . The jittery cellphone footage of her bleeding on the street has turned "Neda" into anÃâà...
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