Freemuse shares the latest report on Privatising Censorship, Digitising Violence: Shrinking Space of Women’s Rights to Create in the Digital Age.

Spotlight on detained performers and art censorship which occurred in May 2019.

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.

The report is an analysis of 673 cases of violations of artistic freedom that occurred in different cultural spheres in 80 countries throughout 2018.

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.

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.

A message from the Executive Director, Cuba's Decree 349 comes into force, Russia's clampdown on rappers and more.

Freemuse has launched its report on women and artistic freedom 'Creativity Wronged: How women’s right to artistic freedom is denied and marginalised'.

Freemuse welcomes its new Executive Committee, which was democratically voted in by Freemuse members at its General Assembly held on 11 November 2018.

Troubling detentions in the world of artistic freedom; Freemuse at WOMEX and more.