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After being released and rearrested two times over the course of a year, famed Turkish singer Atilla Taş has been charged with attempting to corrupt constitutional order and with membership in a “terrorist” organization. Both charges carry potential life sentences, and Istanbul’s chief prosecutor is...
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Musician and filmmaker Aaron Shawn Turgeon, otherwise known as Prolific the Rapper, has been acquitted of all charges related to his actions during last year’s Dakota Access Pipeline protests, following a one day trial on May 25.
Turgeon, who faced up to seven years in prison...
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In an extension of past mistreatment, jailed Chinese activist and performance artist Chen Yunfei has reportedly spent weeks wearing manacles and leg irons after a sarcastic comment he made to prison officials. This experience follows an already contested imprisonment as well as past mistreatment in...
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On February 22nd, as North Dakota law enforcement moved in to evict the residents of the Oceti Sakowin Camp, part of the Standing Rock resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline, filmmaker and journalist Jahnny Lee, working with the Sundance Institute, was arrested while filming a standoff between police and water
Take it from Emma, these proposed anti-protest laws cannot be allowed to pass. In the time since the video was shot, the North Dakota bill giving drivers protection for running over protesters was defeated, but a similar bill has been introduced in Tennessee. These bills are coming fast and furious
- Nadya Tolokonnikova, Pussy Riot