ART UNDER THREAT IN 2016: RUSSIA SERIOUS VIOLATIONS: 10 ACTS OF CENSORSHIP: 16 Religious orthodoxy and political nationalism, under the guise of morality and protectionism, continued to be the main motivations behind attacks on artistic freedom in Russia in 2016. While Russia has moved from the third country with the …

Police detained more than 30 demonstrators who were protesting pornography charges filed against LGBTI and feminist activist Yulia Tsvetkova.

Pussy Riot member Peter Verzilov was detained and sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest because he allegedly used "obscene language".

A Moscow court has sentenced theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov to three years’ probation on charges of embezzlement.

» 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 …

Freemuse registered 469 cases of censorship and attacks on artists and violations of their rights in 2015, making it our worst recorded year yet.

In 2014, Freemuse registered a total number of 90 attacks and violations against musicians’ rights to musical freedom of expression.

Thirteen members of the Pussy Riot were released from detention after being arrested during the photoshoot of a video on LGBTI.

The Side by Side (Bok o Bok) LGBTI film festival held in St. Petersburg was suspended for over an hour due to information relating to a bomb threat.

“We stand with the artist and urge authorities to provide a just and commensurate response to his case,” says Delphine Pawlik, Freemuse Programme Manager.