A picture posted on Twitter's photo-sharing website TwitPic on June 23, 2009 allegedly shows Iranian Neda Agha Soltan's grave in Tehran. The young Iranian woman whose death during protests in Iran has made her a symbol for the opposition was an innocent bystander who was targeted by the Basij militia, her fiance Caspian Makan told London-based BBC Persian television. The fiance told the Farsi-language broadcaster that Iranian authorities banned Neda's family from holding a memorial service for her at a mosque because they were afraid it could become the focus of opposition protests, adding that she was buried in the Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery in southern Tehran. Getty Images logo Getty Images 4 months ago

A picture posted on Twitter's photo-sharing website TwitPic on June 23, 2009 allegedly shows Iranian Neda Agha Soltan's grave in Tehran. The young Iranian woman whose death during protests in Iran has made her a symbol for the opposition was an innocent bystander who was targeted by the Basij militia, her fiance Caspian Makan told London-based BBC Persian television. The fiance told the Farsi-language broadcaster that Iranian authorities banned Neda's family from holding a memorial service for her at a mosque because they were afraid it could become the focus of opposition protests, adding that she was buried in the Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery in southern Tehran.

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