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Freemuse is the only international organisation that defends music, musicians and composers world-wide. The organisation was founded in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1998.

Freemuse aims to defend musician’s freedom of expression. Today there are thousands of musicians who have to deal with issues in regard to that.

Freemuse documents music censorship and violations against the musicians and their human rights and continuously sends alerts about such violations to other human rights organisations and the media.

One of the continuous aims of Freemuse is to defend musicians who are violated, threatened and imprisoned due to their music.

For the past ten years, Freemuse has — through conferences, seminaries and symposiums — created a great network amongst musicians world-wide.

Freedom of expression in Afghanistan, when it comes to music, along with human rights in Afghanistan in general, has always been one of Freemuse’s main focuses.

The efforts Freemuse puts into their work to keep the Afghan music alive during the Taliban regime are highly notable.

Defending and supporting the freedom of expression in Afghanistan will help improving democracy in the country.

 







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about Afghanistan on freemuse.org

Afghanistan: Freemuse workshop in Kabul
At a workshop in Kabul participants from all over the country identified some of the key problems that make life difficult for Afghan musicians and composers.
25 November 2011
Afghanistan: First rock music festival
Afghanistan's first rock music festival, ‘Sound Central – The Central Asian Modern Music Festival’ is an advocacy event for freedom of expression at a critical time.
14 September 2011
Afghanistan: They play rock music in Afghanistan - and get away with it
The multinational rock trio White City from Kabul explains what it involves to play rock music in today's Afghanistan
15 August 2011
Afghanistan: Official sacked over concert with singers without headscarves
The organiser of a concert where the singers appeared on stage without headscarves was fired after religious elders had complained that this was inappropriate
08 April 2011
Music Freedom Day: Local ownership creates diversity of innovative events
Music Freedom Day 2011: An exiled DJ returns to Kabul, music is smuggled out from Burma, and Freemuse hands over an award to an imprisoned singer in Cameroon
09 March 2011
Music & Islam - what's the big fuss?
In Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Taliban continues to attack musicians and music shops, but what is the position on music in Islam?
08 February 2011
Afghanistan: Witnessing a resurge in music
Pashto music can now be heard in almost every nook and corner of Afghanistan, reported PRlog
24 November 2010
Afghanistan: Bomb blast at Farhad Darya's concert
A bomb blast at a concert by Afghanistan's top singer held in Herat wounded at least 13 people on 14 September 2010, reported ABC News
30 September 2010
Afghanistan: Music stores have become a new target
A string of music stores have become a new target for militants suspected to be Taliban enforcers - even in once-stable havens such as Jalalabad
06 September 2010
Somalia: Al-Shabaab bans music like the Taliban
Somalia is starting to resemble Afghanistan under the Taliban, where hard-line Islamist militia bans music and movies and forbids the public from watching sports on TV
23 August 2010
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Pakistan: Music returns to some of Pakistan's tribal areas
In parts of Pakistan’s tribal areas, music is starting to return, reported Free Speech Radio News in a well-produced radio report on 16 January 2012.
18 January 2012
Afghanistan: Freemuse workshop in Kabul
At a workshop in Kabul participants from all over the country identified some of the key problems that make life difficult for Afghan musicians and composers.
25 November 2011
Pakistan: Taliban campaign against music still in full swing
Militants bombed or torched more than a dozen music shops in the second week of November 2011 in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province and North Waziristan
16 November 2011
Pakistan: Freemuse network will document attacks on musicians
At a two day workshop held in Islamabad 12-13 November 2011 a Pakistani network was set up in support of musicians and composers at risk
15 November 2011
Pakistan: Bomb blast destroys music and video market in Peshawar
Six people were killed and over 37 injured in a bomb explosion on 19 September 2011 that targeted a music and video CD market in Peshawar
21 September 2011
Pakistan: Broad instability spelled an end to art in Swat Valley
World Policy Institute has published an in-depth article about the development for artists in Swat Valley since 2007, written by Shaheen Buneri
14 September 2011
Pakistan: Threats from the Taliban sends sarod player into exile
Asad Qazalbash, Pakistan’s only accomplished sarod player, has left the country due to a declaration by the Pakistani Taliban that music is un-Islamic
22 August 2011
Pakistan: The Taliban’s war on music has done lasting damage
It will take a long time for Swat’s musical culture to recover from the Taliban’s crackdown on music, reported Shaheen Buneri from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
08 August 2011
Pakistan: Terror campaign by religious militants against Sufi worshippers
In the sixteenth attack on Sufi shrines in two years, Taliban suicide bombers killed 49 and injured 93 Sufi devotees while they were doing music and meditation
08 April 2011
Pakistan: Anti-music militancy increases in the north-western mountain region
The militants are targeting films and music and everything they see as obscene, and the situation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is deteriorating
21 March 2011