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This band were jailed for making heavy metal music. Now, they’re staging a comeback | Ents & Arts News
“If go again to Iran, handcuffs are ready for me,” states Nikan Khosravi, frontman of hefty metallic band Confess. “It could be 20 yrs, it could be execution – I you should not know. Likely again to Iran is certainly not an possibility.” In November 2015, Khosravi was arrested along with his bandmate Arash Ilkhani, pulled from the basic safety of his household, he says, by the country’s Innovative Guard, blindfolded and taken to the notorious Evin prison. Image: The band now play as a 5-piece with new customers from Norway, the place Khosravi and his bandmate Arash Ilkhani were offered asylum The pair spent three months in solitary confinement,…
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Entertainment News Roundup: Actor Jussie Smollett found guilty of staging fake hate crime; ‘And Just Like That’: ‘Sex and the City’ characters return to the small screen and more
Following is a summary of current entertainment news briefs. Actor Jussie Smollett found guilty of staging fake hate crime Actor Jussie Smollett, one-time star of the TV drama “Empire,” was found guilty on Thursday of staging a hate crime against himself in what prosecutors said was a bid to gain sympathy and boost his career. Prosecutors said Smollett, who is Black and gay, lied to police when he told them that he was accosted on a dark Chicago street by two masked strangers in January 2019. ‘And Just Like That’: ‘Sex and the City’ characters return to the small screen Members of the original cast…