NCRI – A memorial ceremony was held at Neda Aqa Soltan’s burial site today in commemoration of her memory and those of other people who were slain by the Iranian regime during last year’s June 20 uprising in Iran. Neda is buried in Tehran’s Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery.
The ceremony was held despite the fact that the Iranian regime’s intelligence agents had pressured Neda’s family repeatedly to refrain from blessing the event.
The brave youths and people of Iran attended the ceremony even as a large number of suppressive forces had occupied and were controlling Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery. The Iranian regime’s agents were stationed at the cemetery’s main entrance to intimidate and terrify people by videotaping them. In the course of assaults by the suppressive forces against people, at least 5 female visitors were arrested by the regime’s intelligence agents.
The clerical regime’s agents were closely controlling and monitoring roads and highways leading to the cemetery in order to prevent people from attending the memorial. They refused to allow cars with more than two passengers and forced them to return.
At around 22:30 local time, people on Sattar Khan street held candle vigils by their home windows to honor the memory of the nationwide uprising’s martyrs.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
June 20, 2010