HuaYong is a well known painter in Beijing who has been posting videos documenting forced evictions and demolitions in poor neighbourhoods. Fearing arrest, he had fled the capital but was tracked

Podcast: The Voice Project’s executive director, Hunter Heaney, speaks with Harvard Business School on why standing up to authoritarianism is more more important than ever and the impact artists can have.

Turkish singer and columnist, Atilla Taş, was released Tuesday after 416 days in pretrial detention. He was facing charges that could result in two life sentences for his suspected ties

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

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

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

After holding a candlelight vigil in support of a death row prisoner in Singapore on July 13, several Singaporean activists have been faced with a government investigation and restrictions on

Claiming that two unnamed foreign countries have funded dissidents against Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabian authorities have detained upwards of 30 prominent clerics, scholars, poets, and journalists in

After spending most of the past two years in a Siberian penal colony, imprisoned Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov has been transferred to the city of Chelyabinsk via a pre-trial detention

A new bill introduced last week in the Pennsylvania state legislature would require some protesters arrested during demonstrations to pay “public safety response” costs including police overtime, medical and emergency