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| Subject: Unethical Sting Performs for Dictator's Daughter Wed Apr 14, 2010 12:20 am | |
| Rocker STING has been urged to donate concert cash he received after performing for the daughter of Uzbek dictator President Islam Karimov to charity by critics opposed to the private show. The former The Police star, an avid human rights campaigner and environmental activist, has come under fire for playing the secret gig in Tashkent in November (09). Protesters claim Sting should have rejected the offer to sing for Gulnara Karimova, whose father rules a country with one of the world's worst records for human rights abuses. Karimov has been criticised repeatedly by the international community and non-governmental organisations like the United Nations and the European Commission of running a brutal dictatorship, violently suppressing political activism, free speech and religious worship with torture. Karimov's administration has also been embroiled in allegations of financial corruption. Sting's managers reportedly ignored previous calls from the Global Witness campaign group to scrap the gig after being alerted to Karimov's track record.
http://www.thefoxnation.com/entertainment/2010/04/13/sting-performs-dictators-daughter |
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