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Celebrities launch T-shirt campaign for imprisoned artists


NEW YORK: Major names in entertainment including Peter Gabriel and Johnny Depp launched a campaign Wednesday to free jailed artists by appearing on T-shirts with the prisoners’ names.
In an initiative of advocacy group The Voice Project, arrest-style mugshots of the celebrities emblazon the T-shirts. Instead of their own names, each star wears a board with information about a jailed artist.
Gabriel wears a placard for Swedish-Eritrean journalist and author Dawit Isaak, missing since his 2001 arrest in a purge by iron-fisted Eritrean President Issaias Afeworki.
Depp used his presence to support Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who was convicted of terrorism last year …read more

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