10 acts of artistic rebellion
Graffitied pigs, a viola player, underground music, a president as a clown. Just some of the subversive art that ignited our imagination in the last year.
Karima Bennoune: More than just competing extremisms
UN Special Rapporteur on cultural rights speaks to IFEX about fundamentalism, arts and the language of understanding.
Is civil disobedience a “moral responsibility” in Turkey?
How three courageous solidarity campaigns are showing the way when it comes to resisting suppression in Turkey.
The Sewol disaster: Government under fire for alleged artist blacklist scandal
High level government officials accused of creating a ‘blacklist’ against 9,743 artists in South Korea for their criticism of President Park Geun-hye are now themselves under investigation.
Zehra Doğan, artist, journalist and activist released pending trial
On 9 December 2016, Zehra Doğan was freed from Mardin Women’s Prison where she had been held since July, charged with membership and propaganda for a terrorist organisation. But there is little to celebrate. Her trial opens in February 2017, and, if convicted she could spend years more in prison.
Agnès Callamard discusses the times ahead
The new UN Special Rapporteur and longtime free expression champion discusses the changing human rights landscape, civil society, censoring women online, Facebook contradictions and “legal deterioration by imitation”.
Turkish women’s rights advocate Eren Keskin on her life’s work and the problem of impunity
Eren Keskin has faced attempts on her life, imprisonment, harassment from public figures and anonymous death threats for her work defending the rights of women subjected to violence in Turkey.