Iranian Neda Sultani paid for the post-election turbulence that swept over Tehran with her life. As young as a blossoming flower, 16-year-old Nada had a consuming passion for her country, yet the fire died when she took a bullet in the chest at a recent demonstration. I illustrated her as she bid this world farewell, her agonising eyes staring in the face of death.

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