In Thailand, insulting royalty is a crime punishable by up to 15 years in prison (or more recently, even 35 years). “Lèse-majesté” law first entered the Thai criminal code in

Egyptian writer Ahmed Naji, who in May won an appeal overthrowing his previous conviction for “violating public modesty,” was officially barred this week from leaving Egypt. Naji was informed that

Nobel Peace Prize winner and pro-democracy activist, Liu Xiaobo, is out of prison and being treated for advanced liver cancer, according to his lawyers. Mr. Liu was released June 26,

After being released and rearrested two times over the course of a year, famed Turkish singer Atilla Taş has been charged with attempting to corrupt constitutional order and with membership

Musician and filmmaker Aaron Shawn Turgeon, otherwise known as Prolific the Rapper, has been acquitted of all charges related to his actions during last year’s Dakota Access Pipeline protests, following

In an extension of past mistreatment, jailed Chinese activist and performance artist Chen Yunfei has reportedly spent weeks wearing manacles and leg irons after a sarcastic comment he made to

In a legal battle stretching into its third year, Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji is one step closer to securing his freedom. On May 21, Cairo’s Court of Cassation overthrew a

Trần Vũ Anh Bình, a Vietnamese musician, was released May 21, 2017, four months before the end of his 6 year sentence. He was charged with "Anti-State Propaganda" for producing

Four student activists were sentenced this week to four months in prison after an April protest they staged outside the Department of Higher Education office in Mandalay, Myanmar. Kaung Zaw

Karimi, an internationally acclaimed Kurdish Iranian filmmaker, was originally found guilty of “propaganda against the state” and “insulting sacred values” in October 2015 because of a documentary he had made