Neda Agha-Soltan was shot and died in the streets of Tehran on June 20, 2009, as a result of the unrest that followed the Iranian presidential election. The world's attention was drawn to Iran by photographs of her final moments captured on cell phones that emerged on computer screens around the world within hours of her death, drawing attention away from the country's fraudulent elections. A new documentary, "For Neda," releases just before the one-year anniversary of her death. It contains previously unseen film of Neda with friends and family, as well as unique footage of her taken on the day she died.
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Neda Agha-Soltan was shot and died in the streets of Tehran on June 20, 2009, as a result of the unrest that followed the Iranian presidential election. The world's attention was drawn to Iran by photographs of her final moments captured on cell phones that emerged on computer screens around the world within hours of her death, drawing attention away from the country's fraudulent elections. A new documentary, "For Neda," releases just before the one-year anniversary of her death. It contains previously unseen film of Neda with friends and family, as well as unique footage of her taken on the day she died.
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