Freemuse shares the latest report on Privatising Censorship, Digitising Violence: Shrinking Space of Women’s Rights to Create in the Digital Age.
Read More »May 2019: Spotlight – detained performers and art censorship
Spotlight on detained performers and art censorship which occurred in May 2019.
Read More »April 2019: Spotlight – artists released from prison
Egyptian poet Galal El-Behairy has been conditionally released from a Civilian Court-imposed sentence that he received for his art. However, he will stay in prison after being sentenced to three years and receiving a 480 euro fine for his unreleased poetry book.
Read More »March 2019: The State of Artistic Freedom 2019
The report is an analysis of 673 cases of violations of artistic freedom that occurred in different cultural spheres in 80 countries throughout 2018.
Read More »February 2019: New regulations in Uganda restricting artistic freedom, and artists released from jail
Artist Zehra Doğan has been released from a Turkish prison and poet Abdirahman Abees has been found not guilty and released from custody in Somalia.
Read More »January 2019: China’s internment camps and the forced shut down of Moroccan cultural organisation Racines
Jailed poet Galal El-Behairy starts hunger strike, a pop idol detained in a Chinese internment camp, Racines battles a court-ordered closure and more.
Read More »December 2018: Cuba’s Decree 349, Russian rappers and LGBT police
A message from the Executive Director, Cuba's Decree 349 comes into force, Russia's clampdown on rappers and more.
Read More »November 2018: Women and artistic freedom report
Freemuse has launched its report on women and artistic freedom 'Creativity Wronged: How women’s right to artistic freedom is denied and marginalised'.
Read More »New Executive Committee takes office 11 November 2018
Freemuse welcomes its new Executive Committee, which was democratically voted in by Freemuse members at its General Assembly held on 11 November 2018.
Read More »October 2018: Detained artists, Freemuse at WOMEX
Troubling detentions in the world of artistic freedom; Freemuse at WOMEX and more.
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