[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 16492-16493]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      RECOGNIZING NEDA AGHA-SOLTAN

  (Ms. HIRONO asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. HIRONO. Madam Speaker, today I would like to recognize Neda Agha-
Soltan, this brave young woman who was shot and killed while en route 
to join the thousands of Iranians in Tehran who were demonstrating 
against the Presidential election result.
  Neda, whose name means ``the voice'' in Farsi, was but one of the 
many women in Iran demanding that their voices be heard and that their 
votes be counted and their human rights respected.
  Like many other Americans and people from around the world, I have 
been deeply moved by the images of Iranian women who have had the 
courage to speak their minds in defiance of a regime that seeks to 
suppress them.
  I ask my colleagues to join me in honoring the memory of Neda and in 
supporting all of the courageous women in Iran who are raising their 
voices and fighting for the fundamental freedoms and human rights that 
we so often take for granted.

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