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Toomaj Salehi had become a key voice of anti-government dissent in Iran, strongly criticizing the repressive nature of the Iranian regime through his musical output and social media posts.
Kiosk is a pioneering Iranian rock band (The Berlin Daily Newspaper) [2] founded by Arash Sobhani in Tehran in 2003. After censorship and restriction by Iranian authorities, its musicians immigrated to the U.S. and Canada. [3] The band has since toured throughout the world [4] [5] and released seven albums.
Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi has been sentenced to death by an Iranian revolutionary court over songs that criticized the Iranian government, according to his lawyer and state media. “An order ...
The Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance (Persian: وزارت فرهنگ و ارشاد اسلامی, Vezârat-e Farhang va Ershâd-e Eslâmi) ("Ministry of CIG") is a ministry responsible for managing access to media that, in the view of the Iranian government or the ministry, violates Iranian ethics or promotes values alien to Iranian culture.
ARTICLE19, "Tightening the Net: Internet Freedoms in Iran"-a monitoring series of reports on the state of internet censorship in Iran. Hejazi, Arash, ‘You don’t deserve to be published’ Book Censorship in Iran, LOGOS: The Journal of the World Book Community , Volume 22, Number 1, 2011, pp. 53–62(10) , doi : 10.1163/095796511X562644
The film arrives in select theaters in New York and Los Angeles courtesy of Neon, the distributor behind recent art-house favorites such as “Anora,” “Triangle of Sadness,” “Anatomy of a ...
All music must be approved by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance; typically, authorized releases are limited to traditional Iranian folk, classical, and pop music. As some have faced government action for writing, producing, and performing unapproved music, many Iranian musicians do so as emigrants outside of the country.
Iran’s Arsalan Amiri, who won two awards at Venice for his debut feature “Zalava,” is at the Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Project Market with “For the Girls of the Tribe.”