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\nBetreff: IFEX COMMUNIQU\u00c9 VOL 17 NO 24 | 17 JUNE 2008
\nDatum: Tue, 17. Jun 2008 20:15:58 -0400
\nIFEX COMMUNIQU\u00c9 VOL 17 NO 24 | 17 JUNE 2008 | ——<\/p>\n
The „IFEX Communiqu\u00e9“ is the weekly newsletter of the International Freedom
\nof Expression eXchange (IFEX), a global network of 81 organisations working
\nto defend and promote the right to free expression. IFEX is managed by
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\nFREE EXPRESSION SPOTLIGHT:
\n1. Middle East and North Africa: Backlash on Activists Who Take to the
\nStreets<\/p>\n
REGIONAL NEWS:
\n2. Azerbaijan: Chair of IRFS Attacked by Police
\n3. China: Authorities Restrict Quake Reporting
\n4. Mexico: Federal Police Close Community Radio Station<\/p>\n
REPORTS AND PUBLICATIONS:
\n5. IFJ Launches Report to „Break the Chains“ Confining Media in Middle East
\n6. Italian Journalists under Attack by Mafia for 40 Years, says Media
\nWatchdog<\/p>\n
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS:
\n7. Highway Africa Conference Tackles Citizen Journalism<\/p>\n
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
\n8. ARTICLE 19 and ArtVenture Launch $100,000 Award for Repressed Artists
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\nFREE EXPRESSION SPOTLIGHT<\/p>\n
1. MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA: BACKLASH ON ACTIVISTS WHO TAKE TO THE
\nSTREETS<\/p>\n
Six to 25 years in jail. Those are the harsh sentences meted out last week
\nto 11 Libyan activists who planned to gather in Benghazi, Libya’s second
\nlargest city, to hold a peaceful demonstration against police brutality. In
\nthe Middle East, with so few opportunities to voice dissent, taking to the
\nstreets is often the only option. And now, report IFEX members, even that
\navenue is coming under increasing threat.<\/p>\n
The men, part of a group of 14 who were initially arrested, were hoping to
\nhold a rally in February 2007 to commemorate the first anniversary of a
\nviolent clash between protesters and police in Benghazi, reports Human
\nRights Watch. On that deadly day in 2006, demonstrators had stormed the
\nItalian consulate after an Italian government minister defended the
\npublication of the controversial cartoons of the prophet Mohammed. Some
\nprotesters were beaten by police, some were arrested, and at least 11 were
\nkilled.<\/p>\n
Of the 14 men arrested in February 2007 for planning the anniversary rally,
\ntwo have been released. A third man, ‚Abd al-Rahman al-Qotaiwi, has not
\nbeen heard from since his arrest. And the remaining 11 men were convicted –
\nin a new state security court established for the occasion – of planning to
\noverthrow the government and meeting with a U.S. embassy official ahead of
\nthe rally.<\/p>\n
Idris Boufayed, the „main organiser“ who lived for 16 years in exile in
\nSwitzerland until he returned to Libya for a visit in 2006, was sentenced
\nto 25 years. Boufayed is suffering from advanced lung cancer and officials
\nare currently deciding if he should be released on medical grounds.<\/p>\n
Another defendant, Jamal Ahmad al-Haji, is a recognised writer and
\ngovernment critic. In an article he wrote a few days before his arrest, he
\ncalled for „freedom, democracy, a constitutional state, and law“ in Libya.
\nAl-Haji holds Danish citizenship, which the Libyan government has refused
\nto recognise. Nor have the authorities granted Danish government requests
\nto visit him.<\/p>\n
„In Libya today, just planning to criticise the government can land you in
\njail for years,“ says Human Rights Watch, which has been at the forefront
\nof a campaign to get the convictions thrown out.<\/p>\n
The tune is the same elsewhere in the Middle East. In Bahrain, Special
\nSecurity Forces (SSF) and military forces in civilian clothes attacked an
\naudience attending a public seminar on 5 June moments before the meeting
\nstarted, reports the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR). On the
\noutskirts of the capital Manama in Bilad Al-Qadeen, people were gathering
\nto discuss what to do with a petition they had put together – signed by
\n54,000 citizens – that demanded the resignation of the Prime Minister for
\nhis human rights violations during his 37-year rule. One participant is now
\nin a coma after being hit in the head by a rubber bullet that was fired at
\nclose range.<\/p>\n
Just last week in Egypt, the Arabic Network of Human Rights Information
\n(ANHRI) reported that police threatened to use violence on poets and
\nintellectuals who were trying to gather for a cultural event in Cairo. The
\nparticipants planned to call for national unity and the rejection of
\nextremism through an evening of song and poetry – reasonable requests,
\nconsidering the sectarian strife Egypt has been experiencing in recent
\nweeks.<\/p>\n
But security forces prevented them for reaching the venue, threatening to
\nhurt them if they tried to break through the police barriers. Among those
\ndenied access: the great poet Ahmad-Fouad Negm, and George Ishaq, the
\nformer leader of the coalition opposition group Kifaya.<\/p>\n
It was „as if poetry and song represented a threat to Egyptian national
\nsecurity and had to be met with a military response,“ says ANHRI.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, in Syria, a group of 13 notable political activists, including
\nformer parliamentarian Riad Seif, remain in detention following their
\narrest in December 2007 for attending a meeting of opposition groups,
\nreports Human Rights Watch. They are awaiting their trial on charges from
\nweakening national sentiment and awakening sectarian strife, to spreading
\nfalse news that would affect the morale of the country. Hundreds of other
\nactivists are prevented from leaving Syria to attend human rights meetings.<\/p>\n
And still others are being prevented from holding gatherings. Mazen
\nDarwish, president of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of
\nExpression, had actually gotten a permit from the Ministry of Culture to
\norganise a press freedom conference at the Arab Cultural Center in Damascus
\non 25 May. But 15 minutes prior to the event, an official from the same
\nministry ordered its cancellation. In an unrelated case Darwish is
\ncurrently awaiting trial for defaming the state. He was arrested in
\nJanuary while covering violent clashes in Damascus.<\/p>\n
These acts of assembly and the regimes‘ violent reactions to them are worth
\nremembering at a time when Western governments are edging toward increasing
\nengagement with some of the worst press freedom predators. French President
\nNicolas Sarkozy is planning to send two senior envoys to Syria as early as
\nthis month, as ties suspended last year over Lebanon’s political crisis
\nstart to thaw.<\/p>\n
„Any engagement with Syria must include an open discussion of human rights
\nconcerns,“ says Human Rights Watch. For without continued support for those
\npeople and movements that fight for human rights and democracy, Middle East
\n– West relations aren’t likely to get very far.<\/p>\n
Visit these links:
\n– Human Rights Watch on Libya: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3ts2qk
\n– BCHR: http:\/\/www.bahrainrights.org\/en\/node\/2254
\n– ANHRI: http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/en\/content\/view\/full\/94452\/
\n– Human Rights Watch on Syria: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3pomek
\n– RSF on Darwish: http:\/\/www.rsf.org\/article.php3?id_article=27489
\n– IFEX Middle East and North Africa page: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/4ksop7
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\nREGIONAL NEWS<\/p>\n
EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA<\/p>\n
2. AZERBAIJAN: CHAIR OF IRFS ATTACKED BY POLICE<\/p>\n
The chair of IFEX’s Azerbaijan member the Institute for Reporter Freedom
\nand Safety (IRFS) was detained and beaten while in police custody – the
\nsecond time in two days he faced off with police, reports IRFS.<\/p>\n
Emin Huseynov was covering an event in Baku on 14 June, organised to mark
\nthe 80th birthday of revolutionary Che Guevara. Dozens of police raided the
\nevent and arrested 20 people, including Huseynov and two other members of
\nIRFS, and brought them to a nearby police station.<\/p>\n
At the station Huseynov protested against the photographing and
\nfingerprinting of the detainees. He was isolated, interrogated, threatened
\nwith death and beaten repeatedly in the head, including with the butt of a
\ngun. He was hospitalised after losing consciousness.<\/p>\n
IRFS reports that he is awake but remains in the critical care unit with
\nsustained head injuries. The other event goers were detained for seven
\nhours.<\/p>\n
„We are appalled by this brazen attack on our colleague Emin Huseynov,“
\nsaid the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). „We call on the highest
\nauthorities in Azerbaijan to investigate this incident and bring those
\nresponsible to justice.“<\/p>\n
CPJ contacted the police department where Huseynov was held and was told
\nthat „no beating took place. (Huseynov) went to the hospital by himself.“
\nWhen CPJ asked how Huseynov sustained a serious concussion when there was
\nno beating, the police said, „There is no brain concussion. Huseynov is a
\nslanderer.“<\/p>\n
Huseynov, who was able to speak from the hospital, says the police
\nstatement is „an attempt by police to cover up their unlawful action. Such
\nbehaviour is characteristic of the police.“<\/p>\n
Just two days earlier, Huseynov was picked up by state security officers in
\nfront of Azerbaijan’s Presidential Administration building while filming an
\nanti-government picket. He was released more than two hours later, only
\nafter officers confiscated his ID, deleted his video footage of the protest
\nand questioned him about IRFS’s activities and sources of funding.<\/p>\n
In recent months, journalists have been the target of numerous attacks and
\ncourt cases brought on by officials.<\/p>\n
In a recent case, the authorities failed to conduct a thorough
\ninvestigation into the brazen assaults against „Azadlig“ reporter Agil
\nKhalil, who in the space of three months earlier this year was beaten,
\nstabbed and escaped a kidnapping attempt.<\/p>\n
If anything, prosecutors have made a concerted effort to further endanger
\nKhalil, says CPJ: they have falsified information, ignored evidence –
\nsaying that Khalil was never actually beaten – and smeared the reporter in
\nstate-sponsored media.<\/p>\n
Visit these links:
\n– IRFS: http:\/\/www.irfs.az\/content\/view\/892\/28\/
\n– CPJ: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5f4866
\n– CPJ on Khalil: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5tyqhu
\n– IFEX page on Azerbaijan: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5scuo9<\/p>\n
ASIA<\/p>\n
3. CHINA: AUTHORITIES RESTRICT QUAKE REPORTING<\/p>\n
The latest arrests of journalists and bloggers in China suggest the
\nauthorities are punishing those who criticise the government’s handling of
\nthe earthquake, say IFEX members.<\/p>\n
Chinese police arrested retired professor Zeng Hongling in Chengdu, the
\ncapital of the earthquake-hit province of Sichuan, on 9 June for publishing
\npersonal accounts of the earthquake on Chinese-language websites overseas,
\nreports PEN American Center and PEN Canada, the Committee to Protect
\nJournalists (CPJ) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF).<\/p>\n
Then three days later, a well-known Internet publisher and human rights
\nadvocate, Huang Qi, went missing in Chengdu after his website publicised
\nZeng’s arrest, say the IFEX members. According to the International
\nFederation of Journalists (IFJ), he has been charged with illegally
\nobtaining state secrets.<\/p>\n
Huang was forced into a car with two of his friends by three unidentified
\nmen on 10 June. RSF says the Chengdu police claimed they know nothing about
\ntheir whereabouts.<\/p>\n
„The arrest and the disappearance of these reporters suggest that
\nauthorities in the earthquake zone are beginning to punish those trying to
\npublish information about the terrible disaster in May,“ says CPJ. „The
\ngovernment in Beijing must protect journalists in Sichuan who are attacked
\nfor their reporting rather than spare local Communist Party officials from
\nembarrassment.“<\/p>\n
Zeng is currently being held incommunicado at a detention centre in
\nMianyang, her hometown and a city hard-hit by the earthquake, for
\n„illegally providing intelligence overseas“, says the Chinese Independent
\nPEN Center. Her articles criticised the insensitivity of local authorities,
\nand their unwillingness to let aid organisations do their job.<\/p>\n
Huang, director and co-founder of the Tianwang Human Rights Center in
\nChengdu, posted stories on his website http:\/\/www.64tianwang.com that
\ncriticised the way relief was doled out – all through government channels,
\nand reported on parents protesting the shoddy construction of a school that
\ncollapsed in the quake. According to RSF, the Chinese press has been
\nforbidden to cover the collapsed schools story freely.<\/p>\n
Two associates working with Huang at Tianwang, Internet writer Huang
\nXiaomin and webmaster Zhang Qi, were detained on 16 May after saying they
\nplanned to join rescue activities in Sichuan, says PEN. Huang Xiaomin was
\nreleased on 31 May, after extensive questioning about his relation to Huang
\nQi and their activities at Tianwang. Zhang is being held incommunicado.<\/p>\n
Huang Qi spent five years in jail after being arrested on 3 June 2000, the
\neve of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. He was charged
\nwith subversion for posting articles about the massacre by exiled
\ndissidents on his website, which he originally created as a bulletin board
\nfor messages about missing persons, says RSF.<\/p>\n
Huang was the first website publisher to be charged with inciting
\nsubversion in China. According to CPJ, Chinese authorities repeatedly
\ndelayed his trial in 2001 while the International Olympic Committee was
\nconsidering Beijing’s bid for the 2008 Olympics.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, police expelled around 10 foreign journalists on 12 June from a
\nneighbourhood of Dujiangyan, one of the cities that was badly hit by the
\nearthquake, says RSF. They were trying to do a story about a school that
\ncollapsed in the quake. Police manhandled some of the journalists and
\ndamaged their equipment.<\/p>\n
„We are seeing an all-out hunt for press representatives, with police and
\nsoldiers blocking access roads and searching all vehicles,“ said Tom Van de
\nWeghe, the China correspondent of Belgian radio and TV broadcaster VRT, who
\nwas arrested in Dujiangyan and Juyan.<\/p>\n
China had promised to ease restrictions on foreign reporters in January
\n2007 in time for the Olympic Games this August. But so far, it has done
\nlittle to meet its pledges.<\/p>\n
Visit these links:
\n– CPJ: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/4u4gtp
\n– IFJ: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5hw5qn
\n– PEN American Center\/PEN Canada: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/59z2bv
\n– RSF: http:\/\/www.rsf.org\/article.php3?id_article=27465
\n– CPJ report, „Falling Short“, on China’s failure to meet press freedom
\npledges made when the Olympics were awarded:
\nhttp:\/\/cpj.org\/Briefings\/2007\/Falling_Short\/China\/index_new.html
\n– PEN American Center, PEN Canada, and the Independent Chinese PEN Center,
\n„We are Ready for Freedom of Expression“ Olympic countdown campaign,
\nhttp:\/\/www.pen.org\/china2008
\n– IFEX China page: http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/en\/content\/view\/full\/147\/<\/p>\n
AMERICAS<\/p>\n
4. MEXICO: FEDERAL POLICE CLOSE COMMUNITY RADIO STATION<\/p>\n
Tierra y Libertad is a community radio station in Monterrey in the
\nnortheast of Mexico with a broadcasting radius of four kilometres – just
\nfar enough to hit some of the poorest neighbourhoods in Monterrey’s west
\nend. It’s been on the air for seven years, giving the locals news and
\nanalysis on education, health, culture, human rights and labour issues. So
\nit came as some surprise when a large armed police contingent surrounded
\nthe station and forced its closure one Friday this month, in what ARTICLE
\n19 – Mexico and the World Association of Broadcasters (AMARC) say is an
\nalarming case of the „criminalisation of free expression.“<\/p>\n
More than 100 heavily-armed members of the federal police violently burst
\ninto the station on 6 June. Over 200 people tried to defend the station,
\nsay AMARC, ARTICLE 19 and the National Center for Social Communication
\n(CENCOS), but were unable to prevent the police from seizing the station’s
\nequipment.<\/p>\n
The problem, says the police, is the station has allegedly been operating
\nillegally – without a licence. But AMARC and ARTICLE 19 report that Tierra
\ny Libertad had actually applied for a permit from the communications
\nministry way back in November 2002. And to date, they have not received a
\nresponse.<\/p>\n
Instead, the police shuttered the station using the General Law on National
\nAssets rather than applying the Federal Radio and Television Law – which
\n„amounts to criminalising the use of technology to exercise one’s right to
\nfree expression,“ says AMARC and ARTICLE 19.<\/p>\n
The federal government denied the station the opportunity to operate within
\nthe legal framework, say the IFEX members, and it’s not the first time that
\nthe authorities have closed a radio station without respecting the right to
\ndue process.<\/p>\n
ARTICLE 19, AMARC and CENCOS point out the real problems: that the
\nauthorities have „excessive discretion“ in handling licence applications –
\nwhich was, incidentally, ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court – and
\nthat the federal government refuses to recognise community radio
\nbroadcasting, even though it promised the Inter-American Commission on
\nHuman Rights (IACHR) that it would create the conditions for community
\nbroadcasters to survive and thrive.<\/p>\n
The members are demanding that the Mexican state respect freedom of
\nexpression and the right to access information, and that it not misinform
\nthe public with „biased and concocted information,“ as it has in the case
\nof Tierra y Libertad radio station.<\/p>\n
AMARC has penned 14 principles for democratic legislation on community
\nbroadcasting, which came out of an investigation on best practices in 26
\ncountries. Read it here: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5yymb4<\/p>\n
Also visit these links:
\n– AMARC\/ARTICLE 19: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5d5h4w
\n– CENCOS: http:\/\/cencos.org\/es\/node\/18729
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\nREPORTS AND PUBLICATIONS<\/p>\n
5. IFJ LAUNCHES REPORT TO „BREAK THE CHAINS“ CONFINING MEDIA IN MIDDLE EAST<\/p>\n
Sixty-five media workers killed in Iraq in 2007, with little investigation
\ninto their deaths. An Arab charter that gives governments control of what
\nsatellite channels can broadcast. Up to five years in prison for insulting
\nthe President in Egypt or Tunisia. This is what journalists working in the
\nregion can expect, says the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
\nin a new report.<\/p>\n
Country by country in the Middle East and North Africa, „Breaking the
\nChains“ documents the main laws used to repress the media, as well as cases
\nof journalists who have been sentenced over the past year or are still in
\njail. Some of the more known prisoners include Egyptian blogger Kareem
\nAmer, who was sentenced to four years in jail in February 2007, and
\njournalist Adnan Hassanpour, who is on death row in Iran for „subverting
\nnational security“ – a standard excuse to justify the repression of
\njournalists.<\/p>\n
The report is part of an IFJ „Breaking the Chains“ campaign that is
\ndemanding the end of jail terms and extortionate fines that intimidate and
\nsilence independent media. Launched in June 2007, the campaign is also
\nhelping to build professional solidarity among journalists in the region.<\/p>\n
Read „Breaking the Chains“ here: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5oortv<\/p>\n
6. ITALIAN JOURNALISTS UNDER ATTACK BY MAFIA FOR 40 YEARS, SAYS MEDIA
\nWATCHDOG<\/p>\n
For more than 40 years, the Mafia has been targeting journalists who try to
\nexpose the organisation’s criminal activities, says an Italian media
\nwatchdog.<\/p>\n
In a new report, the Italian-based rights group Information Safety and
\nFreedom (ISF) says that nine journalists have been murdered by the mafia
\nsince 1960, from Cosimo Cristina who was killed in Sicily in 1960 to Beppe
\nAlfano in 1993.<\/p>\n
Many other journalists have been threatened and attacked, says the report,
\nand lists some of the most recent victims, like Roberto Saviano, the
\njournalist and author of the bestseller „Gomorrah“, which has sold 1.2
\nmillion copies in Italy and has been translated into several languages.
\n„Gomorrah“ denounces the activities of the Mafia organisation Camorra in
\nNaples. Last month, Saviano tried to rent an apartment in Naples but was
\nforced to go elsewhere due to pressure from neighbours who feared Mafia
\nreprisals. Saviano himself has received serious threats from the Casalesi
\nclan. According to ISF, he has been living under police protection since
\nOctober 2006.<\/p>\n
Fellow journalist Lirio Abbate, who has been the target of numerous threats
\nand even an assassination attempt for his book „The Complici“ – a look at
\nthe collusion between the Mafia and politicians – is always accompanied by
\ntwo bodyguards. „Of course, the presence of bodyguards complicates my job,“
\nhe told ISF. „I have to find alternative ways to find information. I can no
\nlonger go on the streets as I used to do and meet my sources in peace.<\/p>\n
„I do not want to leave Sicily but maybe one day I will be forced to do
\nso,“ he added.<\/p>\n
Abbate says in the past 10 to15 years, the Mafia have become increasingly
\ninterested in journalists – partly because Mafia leaders are no longer
\nfarmers but doctors, politicians and university graduates. „They know where
\nthe information is, and why it’s important to try to manipulate it.
\nViolence is only the tip of the iceberg. Journalists may also yield to
\npressure, be corrupt and bought,“ he says.<\/p>\n
ISF recently launched an appeal in Rome for increased protection of
\njournalists reporting on the Mafia in Italy. Most threats come from the
\nCamorra in Naples, the ‚Ndrangheta in Calabria, Cosa Nostra in Sicily and
\nthe Sacra Corona Unita in Puglia.<\/p>\n
Read „In the Mafia’s Viewfinder“ here (in Italian only):
\nhttp:\/\/www.isfreedom.org\/home1098.htm <\/p>\n
Also see „The Revenge of the Mafia“ (also in Italian):
\nhttp:\/\/www.isfreedom.org\/home1096.htm<\/p>\n
And check out ISF: http:\/\/www.isfreedom.org\/
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\nCONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS<\/p>\n
7. HIGHWAY AFRICA CONFERENCE TACKLES CITIZEN JOURNALISM<\/p>\n
Thanks to social networking websites like Facebook and YouTube and instant
\nmessaging on cell phones, more people can not only consume journalism, but
\nproduce it. Welcome to the age of citizen journalism. But is it really
\njournalism for citizens? Organisers invite you to tackle these issues and
\nmore at Highway Africa’s 2008 conference in South Africa this September.<\/p>\n
Highway Africa, a partnership between Rhodes University and the South
\nAfrican Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), is dedicating this year’s
\nconference to examining the surge of citizen journalism, from what it means
\nto what technology best supports it, and how it can create new freedom of
\nexpression possibilities in Africa.<\/p>\n
„Citizen Journalism, Journalism for Citizens“ will also look at the
\nchallenges, such as the response of the traditional media, or how citizen
\njournalism can affect the quality of journalism and the professionalism of
\ntrained reporters.<\/p>\n
This year’s conference on 8-10 September at Rhodes University in
\nGrahamstown, South Africa is open to journalists, academics, bloggers,
\nstudents, publishers and other interested media professionals.<\/p>\n
A limited number of scholarships will be made available for participants
\nwho are unable to cover their costs. The application deadline is 30 June.<\/p>\n
For more information, email: Highway Africa director Chris Kabwato at:
\nc.kabwato (@) ru.ac.za or visit: http:\/\/www.highwayafrica.ru.ac.za or
\nhttp:\/\/highwayafrica.wordpress.com\/
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\nAWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS<\/p>\n
8. ARTICLE 19 AND ARTVENTURE LAUNCH $100,000 AWARD FOR REPRESSED ARTISTS<\/p>\n
ARTICLE 19 and ArtVenture are seeking to „find light in darkness and
\ncourage in truth“ with a newly established US$100,000 Freedom to Create
\nPrize. The prize honours artists around the world who promote human rights
\nand free expression and are denied their „freedom to create.“<\/p>\n
The inaugural prize has been divided into three categories. The main prize
\nof US$50,000 is open to artists (individuals or artistic groups) in all
\ncreative fields, including the visual and performing arts, music, design
\nand literature. The Youth Prize is for artists aged 18 or younger, and
\ncarries a US$25,000 award. The US$25,000 Imprisoned Artists Prize is for
\nartists currently jailed because of their work.<\/p>\n
„This is not an art prize,“ warn the organisers. „It will not simply judge
\nthe skill of the artist but recognise how the artist has used their work in
\nspeaking out in defence of human rights and freedom of expression.“<\/p>\n
Submissions are being accepted now. The deadline for entries is 31 October
\n2008.<\/p>\n
For more information and to register, visit the ArtVenture Freedom to
\nCreate Prize website at: http:\/\/www.freedomtocreateprize.com or contact:
\ninfo (@) freedomtocreateprize.com
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