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 ...

28/04/2026 - Presented in Brussels, the “State of Artistic Freedom” report by Freemuse.org documents a world in which the conditions for free creative expression are deteriorating rapidly The data ...

Freemuse’s State of Artistic Freedom 2026 report, launched in Brussels, reveals escalating threats to artists worldwide from war, authoritarianism, and deepening political polarization. The study ...

The subtitle Courage Is Contagious quotes Iranian women's rights activist and Freemuse.org researcher Parvin Ardalan, and it carries an implicit call to action: in a world this fraught, we should all ...

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 ...

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 ...