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Trial against two Kurdish singers
Two Kurdish singers are allegedly to be sentenced for ‘propaganda against the [political] order’, reported Shâr News — a local news agency from the predominantly Kurdish city of Saqqez in western Iran — on 17 November 2008
The musicians Seyyed Ali Hosseini and Mohammad Zarifiyan paid tribute to “a singer associated with a group opposed to the Islamic Republic” at a commemoration in September 2008, during the Ramadan month. According to Shâr News they can expect to be sentenced between three months and one year in prison. Their case was brought to Freemuse's attention by the Danish PhD Fellow Rasmus Christian Elling.
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| Related reading on freemuse.org |
| Mahsa Vahdat |
| Two video interviews with Iranian singer Mahsat Vahdat. About women, religion, and music censorship in modern Iran |
| 02 September 2010 |
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| Iran: Supreme leader discourages music |
| Music is not compatible with the values of the Islamic Republic, announced Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on 2 August 2010 |
| 04 August 2010 |
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| Iran: Music gives hope |
| Austin Dacey's article about the underground music scene and the system of music censorship in Iran, based on an interview with the rock band Kiosk |
| 17 July 2009 |
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| Iran: Musicians respond to the crisis |
| Despite a general ban, rock music has become one of the most vibrant forces for critiquing the various ills of Iranian society, writes music researcher Mark Levine |
| 23 June 2009 |
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| Iran: Rock concert raided, 104 arrested |
| A concert in Shiraz was raided by an Islamist militia, and 104 people arrested, on the grounds of being 'immoral', reported Jam-e Jam newspaper on 27 May 2009 |
| 08 June 2009 |
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