Today is the birthday of Neda Agha Sultan, the girl who was killed with her eyes open and left this world

Hejazi, standing one metre away from her when she was shot, tried to stanch 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 government militia. The militiaman 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. A recent documentary on the shooting contained a previously unseen clip of demonstrators capturing the militiaman seconds after the shooting.

January 25, 2023 | 12:31 am