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By Borzou Daragahi and Jeffrey Fleishman / The Bulletin
April 11, 2009
The police were polite but firm as they arrested Shahin Felakat, a lanky teen whose mussed-up strands of dirty brown hair reach in all directions, and charged him with singing lyrics that threatened Iran’s Islamic order.
After a few days in jail, the 18-year-old rapper ran back to the....