Sentences with phrase «protests against a film»

«The American ambassador to Libya and three of his staff members were murdered by a raging mob in Benghazi, Libya, possibly under the cover of protests against a film mocking the Muslim Prophet Muhammad,» Ali writes.

(CNN)- The deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans amid protests against a film that denigrates Islam has sparked global discussion and debate about whether there is a line between free speech and hate speech and, if so, where it lies.

CNN: Reaction to anti-Islam film fuels debate on free speech versus hate speech The deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans amid protests against a film that denigrates Islam has sparked global discussion and debate about whether there is a line between free speech and hate speech and, if so, where it lies.

The union representing state university and park police as well as forest rangers and EnCon officers has joined the protest against film director Quentin Tarantino's remarks last month in which he characterized officers involved in a police shooting as murderers.

The victims» families and members of the Snowtown community protested against the film being made, and Nine Network entertainment reporter Richard Wilkins famously refused to rate it.

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When Philando Castile was shot by police during a routine roadside stop in Minneapolis, and his death was filmed by his girlfriend Lavish Reynolds as her daughter sat in the back seat, the footage helped galvanize protests about police violence against blacks in the U.S.

Huffington Post: At United Nations, Organization Of Islamic Cooperation Calls For Ban On Insulting Prophet Muhammad As anti-American protests continue in Islamic nations against a U.S. - made film that mocks the Muslim prophet, the leader of the world's largest Islamic organization met with United Nations leaders this week to condemn violence over the film and call for a ban on insulting the Prophet Muhammad.

She links this month's protests against an online film making fun of the Muslim prophet Mohammed - which have resulted in several deaths around the world, including that of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens - to the reaction in 1989 against Salman Rushdie's novel «The Satanic Verses.»

I promise to do all that I can to strengthen public opinion against the production of indecent and immoral films, and to unite with all who protest against them.

The dream falls apart when his film's Hatuey, played by locally cast Daniel, becomes the fugitive ringleader of protests against the privatization of Bolivia's water.

Paris (CNN)- After a week of deadly, international protests against an anti-Islam film, a French satirical magazine is fueling the debate between freedom of expression and offensive provocation.

The National Organization for Women of New York will hold a demonstration today outside Manhattan Criminal Court at noon to protest the DA's decision not to bring charges against the film titan.

At the end of the film, viewers are encouraged to visit a website in order protest against and / or reform gerrymandering.

Did this man deserve to be filmed by police as if he was a terrorist, and then kept in an area for hours on end, without access to toilet facilities or food or water, simply because he wanted to protest against British economic policy?

The film also shows the extraordinary way in which Egyptian anti-war activists were heartened and inspired by the global demonstrations against the war, and went on to mount a protest on the outbreak of war that would prove to be a turning point in the Egyptian democracy movement in the long march towards their revolution in 2011.

Already at least seven people have been killed and scores more injured or arrested during protests against an anti-Muslim film which has gone viral on the internet.

Sri Reddy's semi-nude protest against the alleged sexual exploitation of women in the film industry by influential members outside the Movie Artistes Association (MAA), an apex body of the Telugu film industry.

Alexander Payne's Downsizing opened the Venice Film Festival and while the film itself is a polarizing, uneven story, it boasts a powerful, touching and funny performance by Hong Chau who plays an immigrant and activist who protests the Vietnamese government's acts against her small village and ends up shrunken and placed in a TV set at a Target store in...

The film project, based on the book The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking by Brendan I. Koerner, is about an Army veteran named Roger Holder and girlfriend Cathy Kerkow hijacking a Western Airlines Flight in a protest against the war in Vietnam.

Both of these erotic fantasies depend on the stars being attractive to both sexes — though the overt lesbian activity of Tramell in Basic Instinct is downplayed in the sequel, most likely a response to lesbian protests against the earlier film.

Ken Loach's latest, the winner of this year's Palme d'Or at Cannes, is one of the most important films of 2016; there couldn't be a more timely moment for a film about the value of citizenship, and to issue a protest against the increasingly powerful dehumanizing forces of what you might call «client culture,» the corporate logic that reduces human lives to economic statistics or blips on screens.

The arguments for and against fracking are numerous: there is even a group of residents from Armstrong County in Pennsylvania where photography took place, that protest the film, accusing the film studios who aimed their cameras in their backyards that the movie would be fair to the drillers.

Culture and Islamic Guidance Minister Mohammad Hosseini said Iran would boycott the next Academy Awards «to protest against the making of a film insulting the Prophet and because of the organizers» failure to take an official position (against the film),» the Iranian Students» News Agency reported.

As intimate as it is epic, the film presents the major turning points in the life of beloved Indian leader, played by Ben Kingsley, whose protest against British rule over his country became internationally renowned.

This is one of the few films told from the point of view of Native American filmmakers that came out of the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline by the Native American water protectors at Standing Rock.

As with «barely legal» pornographic films, which seek to satisfy base urges associated with illegal and immoral acts while circumventing laws against depictions of underage sex, many of the titles listed on Amazon protest loudly that rape victims are «over 18».

According to my friend Helen Robertson, who was reporting from the protests for Petroleum Economist, the activists» arguments against fracking were largely derived from the film Gasland.