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FREEMUSE REPORT
17 February 2010

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The report is published on 22 February 2010.

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Mark LeVine
HEADBANGING AGAINST REPRESSIVE REGIMES - Censorship of heavy metal in the Middle East, North Africa, Southeast Asia and China
Report no. 9

Freemuse, Copenhagen, 2010
ISSN: 1601-2127.
ISBN 978-87-988163-3-1.   104 pages.


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