{"id":23497,"date":"2011-06-09T14:23:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T13:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=23497"},"modified":"2016-11-14T14:08:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T14:08:09","slug":"azerbaijan-president-admits-censoring-festival-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=23497","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan: President admits censoring festival art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government officials in <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Azerbaijan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/azerbaijan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Azerbaijan<\/a> have admitted that the President\u00a0<a title=\"Index on Censorship: Azerbaijan goes to polls\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2008\/10\/azerbaijan-goes-to-polls-with-weakened-media\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ilham Aliyev<\/a> had a hand in censoring the country\u2019s entries to the <a title=\"La Biennale: Home page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.labiennale.org\/en\/Home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Venice Biennale <\/a>festival. The artwork of\u00a0 Aidan Salakhova included a replica of the Black Stone, a sacred Muslim relic, surrounded by a vagina-shaped marble frame. <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Azerbaijan goes to polls\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2008\/10\/azerbaijan-goes-to-polls-with-weakened-media\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aliyev<\/a>, reportedly asked for several of Salakhov\u2019s pieces to be covered by a black veil because he felt they might be considered \u201coffensive to Islam\u201d. Curators had previously claimed that Salakhov&#8217;s pieces were not on display because they had been damaged in transit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government officials in Azerbaijan have admitted that the President\u00a0Ilham Aliyev had a hand in censoring the country\u2019s entries to the Venice Biennale festival. The artwork of\u00a0 Aidan Salakhova included a replica of the Black Stone, a sacred Muslim relic, surrounded by a vagina-shaped marble frame. Aliyev, reportedly asked for several of Salakhov\u2019s pieces to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[8867,584,585],"tags":[102,115,103,571],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23497"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79832,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23497\/revisions\/79832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}