The Iraqi writer Suhail Sami Nader arrived with his wife to Copenhagen, Denmark, on 23 October 2012 as the municipality’s first ‘safe haven’ author. The 65-year-old writer is persecuted in his home country because of his writing. In recent years Suhail Sami Nader has been living in Amman, the capital …

The distinction between porn and art is often in the eye of the beholder, wrote John Brownlee, cultofmac.com, in his comment on the latest censorship case of Apple’s iBookstore: When Danish author Peter Øvig Knudsen submitted his latest work of non-fiction, ‘Hippie 2’, to the iBookstore, the e-book was rejected …

In the school year 2012-2013, a school class will be able to win the role as Editor-in-Chief of world.bibzoom.dk in connection with the annual Music Freedom Day on 3 March 2013 Bibzoom.dk is the Danish libraries’ digital music service. The site contains a huge amount of world music and non-western …

  Freemuse has received a grant of DKK 500,000 (approximately 66,000 euro) from The Roskilde Festival Charity Society to sustain and develop the Freemuse networks in West Africa, MENA, Pakistan and Afghanistan. “In the past 18 months Freemuse has conducted workshops in the three regions and established a unique support …

An oil painting of a stripper in a cocktail glass wearing the Muslim headdress niqab was to supposed to be an eye catcher for the music event ‘Haram!’ in Odense, Denmark. Instead it provoked a fierce debate, and after threats of a fatwa, the organiser, Amin Safari, has removed the …

  “Make Sweden a safe haven for endangered music makers,” suggests SKAP, Freemuse and the Swedish Arts Council, urging the Swedish government and regional and local politicians to allow the Swedish cities to receive threatened composers and musicians. PRESS RELEASE TO SWEDISH MEDIA At the international conference ‘Right! Freedom of Music …

  Den 9.-11. december danner København ramme for Artsfex, et globalt netværksmøde om kunstnerisk ytringsfrihed, arrangeret af Freemuse og Dansk PEN. Repræsentanter for mere end 1.200 internationale organisationer forventes at deltage, og øverst på dagsordenen står diskussioner om, hvor og hvordan kunstens stemmer bliver stækket verden over. Cinemateket benytter lejligheden …

  A song entitled ‘Dum’ (‘Dumb’) by the Danish pop band Superspark reportedly got Apple’s online music store iTunes to “crack down” with a form of censorship, renaming the song ‘D*m’ when it was released on 15 August 2011. “We love Apple!”, the band wrote on their Facebook wall on 16 …

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  Artistic freedom must be protected. In collaboration with Danish Pen, Freemuse is in the process of inviting key international artists’ organisations to Copenhagen with the aim of creating a global network for the protection of artistic freedom of expression. “We are organizing a meeting in Copenhagen which we hope …