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  • A human rights lawyer in Iran has been sentenced to 11 years in jail. [NYT]
  • The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council decided Wednesday that the 1985 Dire Strait’s song “Money for Nothing” is not acceptable for radio based on its repeated use of an anti-homosexual slur [CP]