Abstract
On June 20, 2009, a 26-year-old female Iranian student named Nedā Āghā-Soltān was shot as she attended protests in Tehran against the results of the 2009 Iranian presidential election. Her music teacher had accompanied her to the protests, but since their car’s air conditioner was not working properly, they had stopped the car some distance from the main protests and got out on foot to escape the heat. While she was standing there observing the protests from the sidewalk, a member of Basij—the paramilitary volunteer militia of Islamic government loyalists set up to be called onto the streets at times of crisis to dispel dissent—had made a decision while hiding on the rooftop of a civilian house. As a doctor, who was present during the incident, witnessed:
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Hendricks, V.F., Hansen, P.G. (2016). The Social Powers of Infostorms. In: Infostorms. Copernicus, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32765-5_12
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