Tonight: PBS Show About Neda Agha-Soltan

Tonight (November 17), the PBS show Frontline has a 1-hour program on Neda Agha-Soltan, the 26-year old woman whose death while protesting after the Iranian presidential election was captured on a cellphone camera and shown on YouTube.  Neda has subsequently become a symbol of the reform movement in Iran.  The New York Times has this preview of the program.

From New York Times

In other related news, Neda’s mother granted her first American interview to CNN and Iran has publicly condemned Oxford University’s creation of a scholarship in honor of Neda.

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