Massive Attack respond after Singapore ban over Palestine display
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Massive Attack are currently on a world tour, with performances next week in Australia following the end of its Asia leg.The BBC has contacted the Singaporean police for comment.Related topicsAsiaSingaporeIsrael & the Palestinians
- ▪Massive Attack are currently on a world tour, with performances next week in Australia following the end of its Asia leg.The BBC has contacted the Singaporean police for comment.Related topicsAsiaSingaporeIsrael & the Palestinians
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Massive Attack respond after Singapore ban over Palestine displayImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Robert Del Naja and Grant Marshall of Massive Attack (file photo)ByJessica Rawnsley and Koh Ewe, Reporting fromSingaporePublished2 August 2026Updated 2 hours agoMassive Attack have said they were "surprised and disappointed" by their treatment by Singaporean authorities after expressing pro-Palestine sentiments during a performance in the city-state.The group wrote on Instagram on Sunday that its members were "detained by the police, isolated and separately questioned", with some subject to hotel room searches and temporary passport confiscation.The band's two members held up a Palestinian flag during its 29 July show there and shouted "free Palestine" alongside members of the…
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