The Voice Project’s campaign to free Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov ended Saturday with his release from a Russian prison after more than five years behind bars. Sentsov returned to Kiev

Kurdish journalist and artist, Zehra Doğan was released from prison in Turkey on February 24, 2019 after serving nearly two years of a sentence for disseminating “terrorist propaganda.”

In a public statement artist Tania Bruguera says: “Tired of suffering defamations in state media publications such as Gramma newspaper and Razones de Cuba as well as official websites from

Via: CNN Pytor Verzilov seems pretty relaxed for someone who nearly died two weeks ago in a suspected poisoning attack. On Thursday, less than 24 hours out of the Berlin

Pyotr Verzilov, well-known anti-Putin activist and member of the feminist art and activist group Pussy Riot, is now in critical condition in Moscow after allegedly being poisoned last Tuesday.

Famed Ugandan musician-turned-member of parliament Bobi Wine, who last year faced intimidation tactics and threats as he campaigned against abolishing the presidential age limit, has once again found himself the

Gonpo Tenzin, a popular singer known especially among young Tibetans for his Tibetan-language music promoting unity and self-determination, has been released from prison after serving his full three-and-a-half year sentence.

After nearly eight years under house arrest, poet and photographer Liu Xia has finally been allowed to leave China for Germany. When her late husband, the prominent dissident Liu Xiaobo

On June 15, 2018, Cuban punk band frontman Gorki Águila—an outspoken opponent of the Castro regime in Cuba—was barred from boarding a flight to Miami and officially informed of travel

Once hailed as a possible peacemaker between China’s Han ethnic majority and his own Uyghur minority, well-known pop star Ablajan Ayup is now missing in the northwestern province of Xinjiang,