Thou "human rights" Hypocrite

Sting Slammed Over Gig for Tyrant's Daughter

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LONDON (April 14) -- He's won awards for his human rights work and praise for defending Brazil's threatened rain forests. But British rock star Sting has now been accused of dumping his morals for money after it emerged that he was paid $1.5 million to $3 million to play a secret concert for the daughter of Uzbekistan's brutal dictator.

"This is blood money, mafia money," Uzbek activist and independent journalist Umida Niyazova, who fled the country in 2008 after serving four months in jail for reporting on the regime's abuse of power, told AOL News. "He might as well have performed in Burma or North Korea."

For those who might be shocked, this is really nothing new. In the early eighties (August 1982) it was reported that Sting attended parties hosted by Saudi financier/arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi and returned from the South of France on a plane chartered by him as well.