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Four student activists were sentenced this week to four months in prison after an April protest they staged outside the Department of Higher Education office in Mandalay, Myanmar. Kaung Zaw Hein, Zaw Ye Htut, Hnin Aung and Ye Myo Swe—all active student union members on...
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Karimi, an internationally acclaimed Kurdish Iranian filmmaker, was originally found guilty of “propaganda against the state” and “insulting sacred values” in October 2015 because of a documentary he had made called “Writing on the City.” The film explores the importance of political graffiti in Tehran...
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Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson vetoed Senate Bill 550 last week, after his state’s legislature had fast tracked the particularly egregious anti-protest bill through both houses in less than a month. SB 550 would have created the misdemeanor offense of “unlawful mass picketing,” defined as any...
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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