On Wednesday, 26 October, a concert held by Ramy Essam at Cairo University's Faculty of Medicine was stopped by university authorities, just hours after the singer was awarded the prestigious Freemuse ...

When Lapiro de Mbanga wrote his most famous song it was in despair at the way he saw his country being ruined by a president making constitutional changes to stay in power indefinitely. When his ...

Freemuse, an international human right organisation advocating and defending artistic freedom, hosted a group of artists, Chicoco Sound Club, in Lagos, to promote Fela’s legacies at this year’s ...

On March 26, 2019, Freemuse, the world’s leading independent international organization advocating for and defending freedom of artistic expression, launched its annual report, The State of Artistic ...

A new report on artistic freedom by the Danish free speech advocacy group Freemuse has recorded a sharp rise in attacks and censorship. In its annual report, titled “Art Under Threat,” Freemuse ...

Freemuse, an NGO advocating for and defending artistic freedom of expression has urged to release singer and artist Ferhat Tunç, who faces 10 years in prison. Tunç will stand trial on December 14, ...

Freemuse has launched a campaign for musician Ferhat Tunç, who has been given prison sentences in several lawsuits in Turkey. The five-language campaign demands that the charges brought against him be ...

(all screen shots by the author for Hyperallergic, from “Art Under Threat: Attacks on Artistic Freedom in 2015” by Freemuse) ISIS’s November 13 massacre at an Eagles of Death Metal concert in Paris’ ...

Seventeen artists were killed, 82 were imprisoned and 133 detained over the past year in 26 countries, according to Freemuse in its latest State of Artistic Freedom report. The survey, published last ...

Thai poet and human rights lawyer Arnon Nampha was arrested and charged with sedition for his participation in pro-democracy protests in Bangkok. This statement was originally published on ...