‘I do not know if I will be able to show this work in France at all, because I don't know who is going to dare to do that.’
Read More »France: Gengis Khan exhibit postponed after attempted censorship
A history museum in Nantes, France, decided to postpone an exhibition about Mongol emperor Gengis Khan to 2024 due to Chinese “censorial interference”.
Read More »Freemuse condemns the killing of Samuel Paty motivated by his teachings about free speech
Teacher Samuel Paty was killed by an 18-year old, after showing his students a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad during a free speech class.
Read More »Poland: Drop charges against women rights defenders. NGOs call to drop unfounded charges for peaceful activism
Charges of “offending religious beliefs” are being brought against three human rights defenders in Poland for exercising their right to freedom of expression.
Read More »‘No one is even raising the question of what with the destroyed nine years of artwork. No one is responsible for that.’ – Interview with Goran Rajšić from the Serbian underground cartoon group Momci
The comic exhibition "Imali su oko sebe taj neki sjaj" created by the underground cartoon group Momci was vandalised in the group of 15 men.
Read More »Attack on art exhibition ‘Imali su oko sebe taj neki sjaj’ in the Belgrade Stara Kapetanija Gallery
On 22 October, Freemuse addressed the letter to Serbian authorities on the attack on art exhibition "Imali su oko sebe taj neki sjaj".
Read More »Belarus: Documentary filmmaker arrested for allegedly participating in a protest
Maksim Shved, a documentary director, was arrested in Belarus while filming his new project during riots against President Lukashenko's re-election.
Read More »Prosecution and detention of artists and cultural rights defenders in Belarus
On 7 October, Freemuse addressed the letter to Belarus authorities and international policy interlocutors on prosecution and detention of artists.
Read More »Turkey: Poet prosecuted because of allegedly insulting president Erdoğan
Turkish poet Ahmet Telli is charged for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a post from an allegedly fake Facebook account.
Read More »‘I felt like I was destroying all the hard work that I had done to make, edit, and publish all those photographs.’ – Interview with Belgian photographer Patrick De Smet
The Ministry of Culture in Greece forced Belgian photographer Patrick De Smet to delete photographs that he had taken in archaeological sites.
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