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• UK: Artist ‘censored’ at Bangladeshi exhibition by Tower Hamlets Council
  17 November 2013, by siawi3

  A Bangladeshi artist has criticised the council after he was told some of his work was too controversial for public display. “It is an absolute disgrace that this level of censoring is taking place in the name of political correctness at an event which was supposed to celebrated British and Bangladeshi arts, but instead curtails the content of the art on display.”

• Playing it straight: should gay roles be reserved for gay actors?
  5 February, by siawi3

  "Being out has done nothing but restrict my career. In the current cultural climate I am invited to participate only on the basis of my supposed oppression. Nothing more is required of me. I live in a cultural ghetto.”

• Le documentaire « Béatrice un siècle » de la tuniso-canadienne Hejer Charf
  14 avril, par siawi3

  Devant l’effondrement des idées qui l’ont portée, elle continuait à dire : « J’ose espérer un sursaut d’humanisme. » Béatrice, une vie d’engagement et de savoir.

• The new Pakistani
  4 February 2010, by siawi2
  Source: Daily Times, February 04, 2010
  by Zaair Hussain
  In a country where a Senator has stood before the House and declared, with a gall that must surely have blotted out the sun, that the respectable tradition of burying women alive  (...)
• Arabie Saoudite : violence des lois religieuses
  9 janvier 2010, par siawi2
  LA FLAGELLATION D’UNE FEMME ÂGÉE, KHAMISA MOHAMMED SAWADI, POURRAIT ÊTRE IMMINENTE
  Source : Isavelives 05/01/2010
  Selon un article du journal Al Riyadh, le ministre saoudien de l’Intérieur a ordonné que les peines de flagellation et d’emprisonnement  (...)
• India: Right wing protest film featuring Pakistani actor
  22 October 2016, by siawi3

  MNS workers protested outside a cinema hall asserting that it will not allow screening of “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil”

• USA: Anti-intellectualism is taking over the US
  20 September 2012

  The rise in academic book bannings and firings is compounded by the US’s growing disregard for scholarship itself

• Iranian foundation ups price on Rushdie’s head
  19 September 2012, by siawi3

  Religious group sets reward for death of British author Salman Rusdie who criticized Muslim Prophet Mohammad at $3.3m.

• USA: Salman Rushdie dismisses latest death threat
  19 September 2012, by siawi3

  Rushdie said the threat was simply the latest product of the ``outrage industry’’ and added that there is ``no evidence’’ of people being interested in the bounty.

• Salman Rushdie’s new book tells of life in hiding
  19 September 2012, by siawi3

  Mr. Rushdie’s protection team always worried that “they” would get him in the end. In the end, though, “Mr. Anton” survived to tell the tale.

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