The beginnings of Bullet Fee Donations

I was sitting in my hotel room this morning and read the following article on usatoday.com

Tehran morgue demands 'bullet fee' for release of body

The family of a 19-year-old Iranian killed during clashes between security forces and protesters says officials demanded a $3,000 "bullet fee" before they could claim his body at the morgue, The Wall Street Journal reports.

The fee was assessed to pay for the bullet that killed Kaveh Alipour, the newspaper says. The Journal says morgue officials agreed to waive the fee after the family argued that all their possessions together weren't worth $3,000.

But, according to relatives, the officials "demanded that the family do no funeral or burial in Tehran." Instead, Alipour's body was quietly transported to the city of Rasht, where there is family, the newspaper repoorts.

The paper quotes relatives and neighbors and saying Alipour, a doorman's son, was not politically active and apparently got caught in a cross-fire at an intersection while returning home from acting classes on Saturday.

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This article coupled with the video of Neda's murder in Tehran brought a flood of tears to my eyes. I ould not sit by and do nothing. I had to do something.

So, I created this blog. I Created a paypal account (bulletfee@gmail.com) for donations and bought a domain name (bulletfee.org) to raise funds for the family of Kaveh Alipour and others who need funds to recover the bodies of their loved ones who have been murdered by the Iranian government.

So, please make a donation via paypal at bulletfee@gmail.com.

100% of donations will go directly to pay the bullet fees.
We will report on each and every family we assist and
we will assure that there is a paper trail to assure that it is going to the right place.

Thank you for your support.

Aaron Campbell
bulletfee.org