The Iranian cartoonist and prisoner of conscience Hadi Heidari announced on Tuesday that he has been freed from prison in Iran. The artist announced his release with a drawing of

Atena Farghadani is set to be released after her 12-year prison sentence was reduced to 18 months. Her lawyer Mohammad Moghimi told the Associated Press that “she will be freed

Malaysian graphic designer Fahmi Reza has been under government scrutiny for his depictions of the Prime Minister, Najib Tun Razak, as a sinister clown. Drawing Najib clad in white powdered

The Angolan rapper Luaty Beirão, also known by his stage name Ikonoklasta, has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison on charges of “rebellion against the president of the republic, criminal

Trần Vũ Anh Bình, a Vietnamese musician, and four other political prisoners – Trần Huỳnh Duy Thức, Nguyễn Hoàng Quốc Hùng, Đinh Nguyên Kha, and Liêu Ly – at the

Trần Vũ Anh Bình and four political prisoners at the Xuyen Moc Prison in Vietnam have entered Day 7 of a hunger strike which started on March 11, according to

After four years in prison, four months of which were in solitary confinement, Mohammed al-Ajami has been released in Qatar. This unexpected good news comes as a surprise, as the poet

Ukrainian Prisoner of Conscience Sentsov Hastily Relocated The Crimea-born Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, sentenced last year to 20 years in prison by a Russian military court, has been moved to

We are very happy to confirm that Atena Daemi was released on bail Monday February 15, 2016, from Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. The Voice Project has been advocating for Atena’s release as part

The Boxcar Children, James and the Giant Peach, The Giver, Where the Red Fern Grows… For many, what comes to mind when seeing these classic children’s book titles is an