The UK has overturned a decision to refuse visas to two award-winning Cuban artists who had been invited to take up a two-week artistic residency in Britain.
Authorities arrested artists Yanelyz Nuñez and Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara, MEMBERS OF THE from Otero Alcantara’s home sometime before 6:30am on Saturday 11 August
To an outsider, the most startling part of artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara’s arrest on 21 July for attempting to protest on the Capitol steps in Havana was the passivity, bordering on fearful ignorance, of his fellow Cubans at the scene.
Their plan was clear: cover yourself with excrement, hold a sign demanding “Free art. No to decree 349” and be visible
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Index on Censorship condemns the killing of five people at the offices of a local newspaper in Maryland, United States. A gunman opened fire on staff at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis on Thursday. “Local...
Two days after the publication of an investigation into alleged inappropriate behaviour by a member of a Honduran military unit involving young female students, digital newspaper Reportero de Investigacion was targeted with a misleading story that purported to be from the outlet.
Despite every effort to stop it in its tracks, Cuba saw the successful completion of its first independent art biennial, organised without the support of the state
Experts working on the security of journalists, press freedom and freedom of expression gather in London to discuss trends that are contributing to a decline in media freedom in the US, and what needs to happen to reverse the situation
Censorship has cross-fertilised and gone viral infecting both democracies and their authoritarian counterparts.
A coalition of 12 press freedom and civil liberties groups from around the world, including Index on Censorshp, will intervene in a VICE News case seeking to keep confidential conversations between its reporter Ben Makuch and a source from being turned over to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).