Young woman describes beating at hands of Iranian paramilitary

[Turborama]

A 19-year-old woman who was wounded by Iranian paramilitary forces with clubs escaped with her camera and shared her photos with CNN -- after tricking a paramilitary soldier into thinking she had given him the images on a disk.

The woman -- whose identity is being withheld by CNN -- said Sunday that on the previous day "the streets were full of guards and policemen."

"They were hitting everyone, and everywhere was fire because of the tear gas they throw at us," she said.

She was walking to Freedom Square in Tehran with a group of fellow demonstrators, but the Basij -- voluntary paramilitary forces that answer to the government -- wouldn't let them get through, she said.

They warned the group to turn around. "They said, 'Just run, and don't even walk.' We were just running away -- and we were hit, of course," she said.

It was too crowded to flee quickly, she said. "I said, 'I can't run. How can I run? It's so crowded in here.' Watch the iReporter talk about the pictures she took »

"He hit me and he was twice as me -- he was so big. And I said, 'You want to hit me?' And he said, 'Yes' and then he hit me with a club."

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