{"id":5251,"date":"2017-06-17T04:16:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T04:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2017\/06\/17\/fwmv-a-silent-pro-democracy-protest-by-maldivian\/"},"modified":"2023-05-13T07:38:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T02:38:25","slug":"fwmv-a-silent-pro-democracy-protest-by-maldivian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2017\/06\/17\/fwmv-a-silent-pro-democracy-protest-by-maldivian\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/fwmv.tumblr.com\/post\/19672064428\/a-silent-pro-democracy-protest-by-maldivian\">fwmv<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>A silent pro-democracy protest by Maldivian Artists was held at Maldives National Art Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maldivian Artists suppressed under illegitimate government, protests for freedom to express!<\/p>\n<p>Freedom of Expression is a fundamental right, yet, a space for creative and artistic flourishing has been denied to us violently and brutally by this police state. The continuing abuse of fundamental rights and freedom must stop!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yGSnxPEmsJs\">Pro-democracy silent protest by Maldivian Artists at National Art Gallery<\/a>. (March 20, 2012)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6stnr2ojSco\">Pro-democracy protesters greet Ahmed Adeeb<\/a>, Minister of Tourism, Arts &amp; Culture of Maldives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>fwmv: A silent pro-democracy protest by Maldivian Artists was held at Maldives National Art Gallery Maldivian Artists suppressed under illegitimate government, protests for freedom to express! Freedom of Expression is a fundamental right, yet, a space for creative and artistic flourishing has been denied to us violently and brutally by this police state. The continuing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[355],"tags":[72,8,25,290],"class_list":["post-5251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-art","tag-art","tag-maldives","tag-mvcoup","tag-suntzuplatoon","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-1mH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2821,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2012\/03\/20\/maldivian-artist-afzal-shafiu-afumeeha-at\/","url_meta":{"origin":5251,"position":0},"title":"Maldivian artist\u00a0Afzal Shafiu\u00a0@afumeeha at Breathing\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"March 20, 2012","format":"gallery","excerpt":"Maldivian artist\u00a0Afzal Shafiu\u00a0@afumeeha at Breathing Atolls. 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