Fangafrika – Voice of the Voiceless The first documentary film about West African hip-hop Produced by Staycalm! Productions Language: French with English subtitles. 52 minutes Burkina Faso and France. 2007 Read more…  

» Read on issuu.com Targeting the Arts Documenting incidents of censorship has never been enough. From the very beginning Freemuse has attempted to put censorship of music and arts into a larger context. In 2015 we introduced INSIGHT – a series of articles providing readers with analytical stories on censorship of …

Twitter has censored a cartoon by Charb, who was killed in the 2015 attack on the Charlie Hebdo headquarters in Paris.

Clotaire K was born in France by a Lebanese mother and an Egyptian father. He writes, arranges and records music, and in this interview, recorded while he visited Denmark to perform during the Images of the Middle East festival in 2006, he speaks about how he perceives music as a …

Kanata, a play portraying Canadian Indigenous history, was cancelled after some co-producers withdrew funding following “aggressive controversy”.

A play set to be performed in private catholic schools was cancelled over its gender equality material; the decision was reversed days later.

On 22 September 2017, a “Nos Années Folles” film poster, featuring nudity and a transvestite man, was removed from a cinema in Senlis by a public servant.

Louvre Museum management censored Dutch collective Atelier Van Lieshout's sculpture “Domestikator”, which they deemed indecent and could trigger violence.

On 15 July 2017, Paris police cancelled a concert by Congolese musician Héritier Watanabe after the venue received multiple threats of "a new Bataclan".

The Supreme Court, on 1 September 2017, overturned a decision by a Strasbourg court to remove 125 artworks from the streets of French town Dannemarie.