The cartoonist behind one of the symbolic images following the attacks in Paris has been arrested and is currently imprisoned in Iran. Hadi Heidari, a well known cartoonist who created

A Saudi Arabian court has ordered the execution of Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh for apostasy and abandoning his Muslim faith, according to trial documents. His conviction was based on the

NEW YORK – On October 25, a sealed cage was unloaded into the middle of a busy Lower Manhattan intersection. Inside of it was a man wearing what was by all

At least 18 young activists were arrested while calling for the release of an activist rapper in Angola on Tuesday, November 3rd. Luaty Beirão, popularly known as “Ikonoklasta,” was arrested

MOSCOW – Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov’s appeal of his 20-year prison sentence will go before the Russian Supreme Court on November 24. Sentsov, who publicly opposed the March 2014 annexation

CHENNAI, India – On Friday, October 30th, a singer in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has been arrested for ‘insulting’ the government in a protest song. S Sividas

LHASA – Pema Rigdzin (also spelled Rigzin), a producer of Tibetan music and one of the artists featured in The Voice Project’s Free The Tibet 10 campaign has been released by

  HAVANA – Cuban graffiti artist El Sexto, whose real names is Danilo Maldonado, has been freed after spending 10 months behind bars for a performance art piece in which he planned

TEHRAN – Atena Farghadani has gone on hunger strike in Evin Prison to protest verbal abuse by prison guards.  The Iranian artist has been in Iran’s most infamous prison since

KUALA LUMPUR – On Sunday the Malaysian political cartoonist Zunar released a new book of cartoons criticizing Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak.  Zunar, who currently faces 43 years in charges