DJ Sentenced to Year in Prison for Remixing Muslim Call to Prayer

Dax J is a London-born, Berlin-based techno DJ. He recently performed at the Orbit Festival in Nabeul, Tunisia. Shortly after the festival, a club where one of its events took place was shut down when video emerged of a DJ playing a remix of the Muslim call to prayer. Dax J, who played the remix, has now been charged with public indecency and offending public morality in Tunisia, according to the BBC. He has also been sentenced to a year in jail. Dax J is not currently in Tunisia, and claims the “conviction in place will expire in 5 years.” In his apology statement, he also wrote, “I am incredibly saddened that anyone would believe that I played a track, featuring a 20 second vocal of the ‘Call to Prayer / Adhan,’ for any reason other than its musicality and the beauty of the vocal.” Read it below; find Orbit Festival’s apology (in French) here.

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