Neda Aqa Soltan
20 June 2009 Killed during protests
Life
- student
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student
- Ms. Aqa Soltan enrolled in theology at the Azad University of Tehran but left university after two semesters
Persian original
خانم آقاسلطان وارد رشته الهیات دانشگاه آزاد تهران شد ولی پس از دو ترم دانشگاه را کنار گذاشت
- According to her mother, Ms. Aqa Soltan had been rebellious since childhood and “would not submit to coercion.”
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طبق گفتۀ مادرش، خانم آقاسلطان از زمان کودکی سرکش بود و «زیر بار زور نمیرفت.»
- She stood up to the officials of her high school and succeeded in refusing to wear the chador
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او در مقابل مسئولان دبیرستانش ایستاد و موفق شد از پوشیدن چادر سر باز زند
- She was very brave and straightforward
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وی بسیار شجاع و رو راست بود
- She loved Arabic dance and Western and Turkish pop music, and especially the songs of Googoosh
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رقص عربی و موسیقی پاپ غربی و ترکی و بخصوص ترانههای گوگوش را دوست میداشت
- Ms. Aqa Soltan was also a reader of books
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خانم آقا سلطان همچنین اهل کتاب بود
- According to those close to her, she loved travelling and was taking private lessons to become a tour guide
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به گفته نزدیکان، او عاشق سفر بود و درس خصوصی میگرفت که راهنمای توریست شود
In the words of those close to them
Her mother said: “She suffered from this compulsory hijab. She really suffered.”— Her motherPersian original
مادرش گفت: «از این حجاب اجباری اذیت میشد. واقعاً زجر میکشید.»
Her music teacher remembers that she was “full of enthusiasm and passion... she was like a ray of light.”— Her music teacherPersian original
معلم موسیقیش به یاد میآورد که او «سرشار از شوق و شور بود... مثل یک پرتو نور بود.»
A simple young person who, like the other young people of her country, cared about her own fate and that of her society, that's all”— Ms. Aqa Soltan's motherPersian original
یک جوان ساده که مانند دیگر جوانان کشورش نسبت به سرنوشت خود و جامعهاش حساس بوده، همین»
How they died
- On North Kargar Street she was killed by a bullet to the chest.
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در خیابان کارگر شمالی به علت اصابت گلوله به سینه کشته شد.
- On 30 Khordad 1388, at 20:19, she was shot by a motorcycle-riding plainclothes agent in Kuy-e Kargar
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وی در تاریخ ٣٠ خرداد ١٣٨٨، ساعت ٢٠:١٩، توسط یکی از نیروهای لباس شخصی موتور سوار، در کوی کارگر هدف گلوله قرار گرفت
- The bullet hit her heart, and she died in front of people who were filming her with their mobile phone cameras
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این گلوله به قلب او اصابت کرد و وی در برابر افرادی که با دوربین تلفنهای همراه از او فیلمبرداری میکردند، جان سپرد
- Arbitrary execution » arbitrary shooting » unknown type of weapon » targeting vital organs of the body
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اعدام خودسرانه » شلیک خودسرانه » توع اسلحه نامشخص » هدف قرار دادن اندامهای حیاتی بدن
After their death
- To prevent people from going to the Aqa Soltan family's home to offer condolences and to prevent gatherings, the Iranian government had forced her family to leave their home and move to another place
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دولت ایران برای جلوگیری از مراجعه مردم به منزل خانواده آقاسلطان و تسلیت گفتن به ایشان و همچنین جلوگیری از تجمع مردم، خانواده وی را وادار به خروج از منزل و انتقال به مکان دیگری کرده بود
- The Iranian authorities did not accept responsibility for the killing of Ms. Aqa Soltan
Persian original
مقامات ایران مسئولیت کشته شدن خانم آقاسلطان را قبول نکردند
- The forensic medicine officials wanted to take parts of her body, including part of her thigh bone
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مسئولان پزشک قانونی خواستند که بخشهایی از بدنش از جمله قسمتی از استخوان رانش را بگیرند
- The Basijis and the mosque officials did not allow it to be held
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بسیجیان و مسئولان مسجد اجازه برگزاری ندادند
Sources
Listed in
- Killed in the Green Movement (2009)
- Killed during protests
- Women killed
- University students
- The year 1388 (2009–2010)
- Tehran Province
- Tehran
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