FREEMUSE – FREEDOM OF MUSICAL EXPRESSION

Newsletter no. 4 - 2012

First global network in support of artistic freedom of expression

Read more: www.artsfex.org  

United Nations: Global study on the right to artistic freedom

Read more: www.freemuse.org/sw49044.asp  

World Conference on Artistic Freedom of Expression

Read more: www.artsfreedom.org

Vietnam: Two musicians get four and six years prison-sentence

Read more:      

www.freemuse.org/sw48934.asp        

Freemuse’s appeal letter (PDF)  

Cameroon: Musicians‘ demonstration ended with 63 arrests

Read more: www.freemuse.org/sw49087.asp

Iranian musician: How to live with a death sentence

Freemuse published a nine-pages interview with Shahin Najafi and Günter Wallraff.        

Read more: www.freemuse.org/sw47478.asp

Mali: The day the music stopped

Read more: www.freemuse.org/sw48998.asp

Silencing music in Turkey 2012

Read more: Silencing-Music-in-Turkey2012.pdf

CAMPAIGNS AND SUPPORT TO MUSICIANS  

• Vietnam: Viet Khang and Hoang Nhat Thong Convicted to four and six years in prison for anti-state propaganda. 
• Iran / Germany: Shahin Najafi Sentenced to death in absentia by religious authorities in Iran.  
• Iran: Arya Aramnejad Released in April 2012 but was sentenced to one more year in prison. 
• Russia: Pussy Riot Two band members sentenced to two years in prison.  
• Turkey: Ferhat Tunç Sentenced to two years in prison. Still on trial. 
• Morocco: El Haked Sentenced in May 2012 to one year in prison.