Brazil removes ‘50 Shades of Grey’ Brazil: chronic backwardness and hysterical arrogance

Artist Alert: December 2012 - January 2013 Art, in any form, constitutes a key medium through which information and ideas are imparted and received. Artist Alert, launched by ARTICLE 19 in 2008, highlights cases of artists around the world whose right to freedom of expression has been curtailed and abused, and seeks to more effectively promote and defend freedom to create.  Americas Brazil removes ‘50 Shades of Grey’ Reggaeton music not allowed in Cuba Europe / Central Asia Malta: Banning of theatre play upheld by highest court  Online: Apple removes erotic novel from iTunes store Poland: Belarusian exhibition censored  Russia: Pussy Riot ‘punk prayer’ video blocked  Russia: Exhibition investigated for “blasphemous” content  Turkey: TV Channel fined after airing “blasphemous” Simpsons episode Middle East and North Africa Egypt bans “romantic” and “sarcastic” songs from state-run media Egypt: Comedian investigated for mocking president  Egypt: Female anti-Islam cartoonist vetoed from exhibition  Qatar: Poet sentenced for life  Tunisia: Street artists facing trial  Asia Afghanistan: First female rapper receives death threats   China: James Bond’s Skyfall censored China: American film censored Warhol’s Mao painting excluded from Chinese exhibition   Myanmar bans street art Africa Cameroonian writer sentenced  Namibia:  Environmentalist exhibition cancelled  PRESS RELEASE Burundi: Government must commit to improve record on freedom of expression ARTICLE 19 calls on the Burundian Government to make concrete commitments to promote the rights of freedom of expression, information and association following the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the country at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).  Read more > AZAD TRIBUNE Lifting Iran’s Electronic Curtain Means Keeping Up with the Cyber Army Last year, in remarks commemorating Nowruz, the Persian New Year, President Barack Obama referred to Iran’s strict control over what citizens can say and see online as an “electronic curtain” and announced new guidelines to help “American businesses provide software and services into Iran that will make it easier for Iranians to use the internet.” Read more >  Find us on Facebook  Follow us on Twitter  Follow our RSS feed  Forward to a friend