The footage of the young girl dying after having been shot is on CNN's iReport, please Digg

Basij shots to death a young woman in Tehran's Saturday June 20th protests At 19:05 June 20th Place: Karekar Ave., at the corner crossing Khosravi St. and Salehi st. A young woman who was standing aside with her father watching the protests was shot by a basij member hiding on the rooftop of a civilian house. He had clear shot at the girl and could not miss her. However, he aimed straight her heart. I am a doctor, so I rushed to try to save her. But the impact of the gunshot was so fierce that the bullet had blasted inside the victim's chest, and she died in less than 2 minutes. The protests were going on about 1 kilometers away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gass used among them, towards Salehi St. The film is shot by my friend who was standing beside me. Please let the world know...

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-276875

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The one I uploaded is still being processed...

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-276665

There's several videos arriving there now of similar scenes...

This is somehow connected to CNN?

In a corner of the photograph or photographs is iReport. Click on the photo.

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witness her death. it's just not right. it doesn't make what they have done worse. a still shot would be sufficient. please.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1149602027692&ref=nf

It's about exposing what they are doing in lieu of no TV crews there.

Hopefully her death won't be in vain when people see scenes like this & wake up to what's really going on in their country.

This is how it starts.

Oh, don't show that. It's too graphic. Show this instead.

Well, no, don't show that. It's too graphic also. Show this one instead.

On third thought, let's just not show anything. We'll describe it.

No, we'll allude to it.

There's not really any story anymore. Why even mention it?

I gave a presentation to a group of college freshmen last year on the uses of history in creating memory and further how that is used for political purposes in the modern age. As a part of this, I had a PowerPoint presentation with dozens of still photographs, some of horrific scenes of violence, including images of lynching, beheading, various forms of torture, etc. I even had a few "approved" news clips from the WWII era.

And then I showed some color video clips that showed men being shot, bleeding, and dying right there on the screen.

I'll give you one guess what their post-presentation questions were about and what part of the presentation they, as a group via a questionnaire, said impacted them the most.

i am not trying to bury this. have you held your dying child in your arms? when you have you can come to me and tell me my opinion has to do with press censorship.

You don't know me or my circumstances nor what kinds of things I have done and witnessed.

And none of it is relevant anyway.

Your reasoning is the crest of the slope upon which we slip. Watching it happen is horrible. It's supposed to be horrible, so that maybe those who have not held their child as they died in their arms can start to understand some small bit of what goes through your mind when it happens.

i still feel the way i do. the shortened version is just as horrific for probably 99percent of people.

And her mother. And the rest of her family. They may want to show it. OTOH, it maybe too traumatic. They should should have the right to say. I say this as someone who has lived with having no say when I should have.

i would want it to get out as much as it can.

until her father says he doesn't want it to be seen i think it needs to be out there .

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I don't want to watch this. I know it's important to bear witness, I understand this. But sitting in my safe apartment thousands of miles away watching someone die feels voyeuristic and exploitative to me. Please understand that.

How much of it did they show?

Mostly the clip of her lying on the ground, with people around her trying to stop the bleeding, in vain. They pixelled out her face out of respect, though.

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I just started bawling and I can't stop crying... Her father was screaming

A disturbing video showing a young woman purportedly shot in the streets of Tehran is becoming a rallying symbol for opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

It is one of many images and video posted on the Internet that seem to show the violence of today’s crackdown in the capital, where police and pro-government militiamen fired tear gas and water cannons at stone-throwing demonstrators protesting a disputed election.

It is not possible to verify the authenticity of these images, but they have been uploaded repeatedly on YouTube, Facebook and other sites.

A copy of the video was also emailed to The Times. It seems to show a woman lying in the street with blood spurting from her chest. A man leans over, trying to stop the bleeding with his hands.

The footage, which can be viewed on YouTube, is extremely graphic. The identity of the woman could not be independently confirmed. But she is referred to on Twitter as Neda.

"#Neda: You are the VOICE of the people. You are a call to FREEDOM.....rip," readd one of the many tweets about her apparent slaying.

CNN reports that pictures of the woman are appearing on posters in Tehran and she is being hailed as a martyr. The network broadcast an excerpt of the video with the face of the woman blurred out.

Iranian Americans also downloaded the video and used it to make posters, which were held up at a demonstration today outside the Federal Building in Westwood.

— Alexandra Zavis and Amber Smith

From: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2009/06/iran--2.html

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