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CATEGORY: Awards
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
#IndexAwards2019 Rappler editor and actor to judge international freedom of expression awards
Index on Censorship is proud to announce that the executive editor of Rappler.com Maria Ressa and actor Khalid Abdalla will join a panel of judges to select the 2019 Freedom of Expression Awards Fellowship winners.
Cuba: Index calls for the immediate release of artists arrested for peacefully protesting law that will limit artistic freedom
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Update: All arrested artists have now been released, although they remain under police surveillance. Cuba's vice...
Cuban artists arrested while protesting Decree 349
Cuban artists Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara and Yanelys Nuñez Leyva, members of the Index-award winning Museum of Dissidence, were arrested in Havana on 3 December, along with the performance artist Tania Bruguera
Egypt: Index fellow wins Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law
Mohamed Lotfy, executive director of the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms, the organisation that won the 2018 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award for Campaigning, has been awarded the Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law
Cuban artist protests Decree 349 as Miss Bienal in Trafalgar Square
Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, a Cuban artist, and co-founder of award-winning Museum of Dissidence performs in Trafalgar Square on 26 October
Join Miss Bienal to say no to the criminalisation of culture in Cuba
Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, a Cuban artist, and co-founder of award-winning Museum of Dissidence will perform in Trafalgar Square on 26 October
Press freedom in Maldives: “I honestly think it is too soon for anyone to relax”
After five years the president of the Maldives may be on his way out — but no one is celebrating yet.
Artist’s Talk: Museum of Dissidence – Cuba
A talk with our Freedom of Expression award-winners behind the Museum of Dissidence about the power of art in Cuba
The Freedom of Expression Awards and Fellowship is a key Index on Censorship programme designed to highlight and amplify the work of some of the world’s most courageous defenders of freedom of expression. Previous winners include Journalist Fergal Keane, novelist Ma Jian, lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, activist Malala Yousafzai, cartoonist Ali Ferzat, journalists Anna Politkovskaya and Fergal Keane, and Bahrain Center for Human Rights. Learn more.