ABSTRACT
On 23 June 2009, SBS television news in Australia showed an image caught on a mobile telephone camera, which, the newsreader said, was ‘rapidly becoming iconic’. It was the death scene of the 27-year-old music student Neda Agha Soltan. She had been shot in the chest during the Tehran street protests against the reportedly rigged election results returning Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power.
