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Filmmaker Muhammad Bayazid was stabbed in Istanbul Tuesday night on his way to a meeting with a potential investor for his latest movie. The upcoming film, The Tunnel, is about the Assad regime’s abuse and torture of a Syrian man in Tadmur prison. The prison,...
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Rising political tensions in Uganda over the past several weeks have come to a fever pitch on the back of newly elected Member of Parliament Robert Kyagulanyi, better known by his stage name Bobi Wine. In the span of less than a month, Wine has...
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Iranian authorities at Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport have confiscated the passport of renowned filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof. Returning to Iran from the Telluride International Film Festival in Colorado on September 18, 2017, Rasoulof was briefly detained at customs and released several hours later without his...
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Ramón Esono Ebalé is a political cartoonist and activist from Equatorial Guinea who was detained by State Security on September 16, 2017. Esono has yet to go before a judge or receive charges, in violation of Equatoguinean law, which states that no person shall be detained longer than 72 hours
Kirill Serebrennikov is a Russian theatre and film director who was detained on August 22, 2017 in St. Petersburg. The Russian government alleges that he embezzled 68 million roubles (about $1.1 million) of state funds meant to be used for a theatre project between 2011 and 2014, but Serebrennikov maintains
- Nadya Tolokonnikova, Pussy Riot