Sentence examples for performed a protest from inspiring English sources

Veteran songwriter Wolf Biermann, who was kicked out of the GDR in 1976, performed a protest song called Ermutigung (Encouragement) and took a number of swipes at politicians from Die Linke (the Left party), successors to East Germany's ruling party, the SED.

A young woman named Ezili, who described herself as a singer-actress-writer-composer, stopped by one afternoon to ask advice about how and where she might perform a protest song she'd written.

Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, alongside fellow band member Yekaterina Samutsevich, had been found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred after performing a protest song in Moscow's main cathedral.

Band members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, who served prison sentences after performing a protest song against Russia president Vladimir Putin in a church, were among five band members and a cameraman attacked by Cossacks as they performed under a sign advertising the Games on Wednesday.

Ahead of his visit, British musicians have appealed to Russian authorities to give punk rock group Pussy Riot - due to stand trial for performing a protest song in Moscow - a "fair hearing".

Russia also chafes under U.S. criticism of human rights abuses like the prosecution of opposition figure Alexei Navalny, the jailing of Pussy Riot punk rockers for performing a protest song against Putin and the repression of its own whistle-blowers like Sergei Magnitsky, who died in custody in 2009 after disclosing widespread corruption among tax authorities.

The activists also performed a Thanksgiving-inspired protest.

Shortly before interval, when the crowd exited for a gasp of fresh air, Rumbewas and Eleby – in traditional dress, and holding a drum and guitar – joined with Gruner, in a plaid shirt and holding a violin; they performed a West Papuan protest song while dancing from one end to the other, in the night's most enjoyable performance.

She and another band member, Maria Alyokhina, were jailed after performing a crude protest song in a Moscow cathedral.

After the judge read the sentence Thursday, supporters in the courtroom chanted "Shame!" and Ms. Romanova yelled to the judge, "Damn you!" Police also detained a third member of a punk band that slipped into Moscow's main Orthodox cathedral just before the presidential election this month and performed a lewd song as a protest.

He said he would continue to perform as a protest "against the contempt ordinary Moroccans endure at the hands of the state and politicians".