I found this story interesting. It's about the trial of a Uzbekistan musician who wrote and recorded a pop song containing lyrics that supposedly 'insult' the Uzbekistan president. The singer Dadakhon Khasanov is on trial for 'slander'.
The song's lyrics are about the Andijan massacre where Human Rights Watch says "bullets were falling like rain" and that hundreds of demonstrators were gunned down.
Sometimes it's easy to forget that freedom of expression is not alive and well everywhere.
Read the full story here.
[Resource http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article1207610.ece]
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