Journalist Emilio Gutiérrez fled Mexico after soldiers sent him a warning. Now the USA wants to send him back.
Project Exile: Threatened in Mexico, facing deportation in the USA
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CATEGORY: Americas
Index on Censorship calls for the immediate release of Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Index on Censorship calls for the immediate release of Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara, a member of the 2018 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award-winning Museum of Dissidence. This is the...
Podcast: Freedom of Expression Awards 2019 Winners’ Roundtable
A special edition of the Index on Censorship podcast celebrating the winners of the Freedom of Expression Awards 2019.
Pen International and ARC join Index on Censorship in show of solidarity with Cuba’s independent artists
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Index on Censorship, Pen International and Artists at Risk Connection of Pen America stand in solidarity with independent Cuban artists as the 13th Havana Biennial, which begins in the Cuban capital on 12 April...
#IndexAwards2019: Index announces Freedom of Expression Awards winners
A Kurdish artist imprisoned for her paintings of the destruction of a town in Turkey’s Kurdish region and a worldwide network monitoring threats and abuses against editorial cartoonists around the world are among the winners of the 2019 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards.
Fundación Karisma: “At the heart of Karisma’s work has always been the promotion of access to knowledge and culture”
Winner of the 2019 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Digital Activism Award, Fundación Karisma is a civil society organisation fighting for digital rights in Colombia.
Wendy Funes: Fear is a weapon used against the vulnerable in Honduras
Funes worries violence has become “normalised” in Honduras and that the shooting and wounding of journalist Geovanny Sierra is just the latest example
Tania Bruguera: Injustice exists because previous injustices were not challenged
Tania Bruguera who was detained last week with fellow artists in Cuba for protesting against Decree 349, an artistic censorship law, has written an open letter
Index joins show of solidarity with Cuba’s jailed artists: “Art should not be criminalised”
Index on Censorship joined others at the Tate Modern today in a show of solidarity with those artists arrested in Cuba for peacefully protesting Decree 349, a law that will severely limit artistic freedom in the country
A global call: No to Cuba’s Decree 349
The decree does not include anything new to the current practice of the Cuban government, but it does offer a legal cover to a reactionary, ancient and regressive practice