TEHRAN – The Iranian artist Atena Farghadani, famously sentenced to over 12 years in prison for a cartoon depicting the country’s parliament as animals, is facing yet another charge –

    HAVANA – The Cuban government has returned to Cuban artist Tania Bruguera her passport, and she is now legally allowed to leave the country. In a meeting on

In recent months, Iran’s Revolutionary Courts have sentenced one activist to 14 years for charges which included listening to protest songs, two artists to a combined 20 years in prison

Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova was taken into custody at roughly 4:30 PM local time (GMT+3) on June 12 along with activist Ekaterina Nenasheva in Moscow during an action supporting female

Zambian officials have arrested singer and musician Chama Fumba (known on stage as Pilato) over a song which they say could cause public disorder. He faces trial tomorrow and could

Tania Bruguera was arrested on Sunday in Cuba following a free speech demonstration with the Ladies in White (Spanish: Damas de Blanco).  While this marks yet another attempt by the

May 15, 2015 — Maria (Masha) Alekhina and Nadezhda (Nadya) Tolokonnikova, founding members of Pussy Riot, along with Hunter Heaney, Director of the Voice Project, made a surprise call to

Last month, a group of activist artists disguised as construction workers entered Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn before dawn to install a statue of Edward Snowden which was removed by police.

“Things are dangerous and bad things happen. But you can’t let fear control you, you’ll never get anything done.” For peaceful activists worldwide, following these words has become more difficult,

Following international condemnation for the use of its controversial Sedition Act to silence voices of peaceful protest, Malaysia’s House of Representatives passed a reform act which that would ostensibly protect