Neda Agha-Soltan film

Ian Black, Guardian, Film about Iranian protest victim Neda Agha-Soltan beats regime's censors, 4 June 2010 "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."

Download the film (Arabic, Farsi, English versions) via For Neda

Or see it on YouTube (this is the English version):

I haven't viewed this fully yet, but the first five minutes are powerful ...

Iran and the net

AFP, Iran posts banned websites list in cyber crackdown: report, 7 Jan 2010 "The Iranian judicial authorities have published a long list of banned Internet websites in a new crackdown on online networks, including those deemed immoral, the press reported on Thursday."

Martin Fletcher, Times Online, Neda Soltan’s grave defaced as Iran issues new internet restrictions, 8 Jan 2010

Neda Agha Soltan update

Times Online, 'Angel of Freedom' Neda Agha Soltan Oxford scholarship will be her most important legacy, 12 Nov 09 "Four months on, Neda has become a defining symbol of the protest movement in Iran. So the decision by Queen’s College, Oxford, to establish a scholarship in her name is more than commendable. The “Neda Agha-Soltan Graduate Scholarship” for philosophy students of Iranian descent could prove to be a galvanising tool for the protesters – especially in their fight to counter academic censorship in Iran. As a British-Iranian student myself, Oxford’s move is as striking as it is heartening."

Neda Agha Soltan update

Allegations:

azarmehr, Video of Neda's Killer, 26 Sep 09 "I am told this is a video footage of Neda's killer, after being apprehended by the people who took his ID card, which identified him as Abbas Kargar Javid, member of much hated Baseej militia thugs and hoodlums."

Iran and the Internet

Nasser Karimi, AP, Thousands protest in Iran, defying crackdown vow, 10 Jul 09 "The calls for a new march have been circulating for days on social networking Web sites and pro-opposition Web sites. Opposition supporters planned the marches to coincide with the anniversary Thursday of a 1999 attack by Basij on a Tehran University dorm to stop protests in which one student was killed."

Bruce Etling, Internet & Democracy, Iranian Protesters Return to Streets, Everyone Else to Twitter, 9 Jul 2009

CNN, 'United for Neda' is artists' song for Iranian people, 9 Jul 09

Ahmadinejad inquiry on Neda

Guardian, Iran election: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad orders inquiry into 'suspicious' death of student martyr, 29 Jun 09 "He accused foreign media of using the case for propaganda purposes. He also suggested that the opposition and Iran's enemies abroad aimed to misuse it "for their own political aims and also to distort the pure and clean image of the Islamic Republic in the world"."

Neda Agha-Soltan

Independent, Iran online: Around the world in 60 minutes, 28 Jun 09 "The image of Neda Agha-Soltan dying on a Tehran street just a week ago spread round the world in hours. Via the internet's most powerful media – YouTube, MySpace, Facebook – a lo-fi cell phone video showed the world her dying moments, after she was shot by a sniper as she watched Iranian security forces clash with demonstrators angry at the presumed "stealing" of Iran's presidential election."

Doctor tells how Neda Soltan was shot dead by Ahmadinejad's basij

Times Online, Doctor tells how Neda Soltan was shot dead by Ahmadinejad's basij, 26 Jun 09