Ahnaf Jazeem remains in detention after being arrested in May 2020 under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) in relation to his poetry book.
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Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland cancelled the exhibition "The Breath of Empty Space" because of “troubling community response”.
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