A Mother Mourns

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IranHumanRights.org captures this photo and captions: "Neda's mother holds a solitary candle at a park near her house." She told the BBC in an interview:

Neda was passionate about freedom, dreamed of being a mother. She wasn't given a chance to make her dreams come true.

Tehran Bureau profiles several of the other martyrs honored today. One of them was Sohrab Araabi, a 19-year-old boy who was found shot in the heart. In the following clip, his brother reads off the names of those killed during the uprising:

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