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While the professional journalists in Iran have been locked down in their hotels, prohibited from taking photographs or interviewing Iranians, ordered out of the country and even arrested, a new breed of citizen journalists have taken their places, successfully sending news, photographs and videos of Iranian events to the outside world. The camera phone has replaced the Uzzi as a guerilla weapon.
Yesterday, we watched as a beautiful 16 year old girl named Neda was murdered on the streets of Tehran. She was killed by a government funded and dispatched sharp-shooter as she stood with her father watching a crowd of political demonstrators confront her government's election illegalities.
Neda's shocking death was captured on a camera phone from a few steps away by the non-journalist friend of the doctor who we saw trying desperately to stop the blood flowing from her wounds.
