Kurdish poet İlhan Sami Çomak is one of Turkey’s longest serving political prisoners, having been imprisoned for over 26 years. His life sentence on charges of starting a forest fire

Indian poet and journalist Siraj Bisaralli was arrested February 2020 after a public poetry reading in which he protested India’s controversial Citizenship Amendment Act. He has since been released on

The Chinese Muslim poet and writer Cui Haoxin, who publishes under the pseudonym An Ran, has been detained in China since January 24, 2020. Following a series of tweets over

U Saw Wai, a renowned Burmese poet, writer, and performance artist, was charged in October 2019 under the controversial Section 505(a) of the Myanmar Penal Code. If convicted, he faces

The circumstances surrounding Sharif’s arrest, charges and conviction are murky. He was arrested on March 4, 2020 after a mob of angry protesters burnt down the singer’s home in Kano,

Kioomars Marzban is an Iranian writer and political satirist who was convicted in August 2019 of “cooperating with a hostile state,” “spreading propaganda,” and “insulting sanctities” after a pretrial detention

Shariat Sarkar is a Bangladeshi baul singer who has been detained since January 11, 2020 on charges of using derogatory remarks during a concert to “hurt the religious sentiment of

Peacock Generation is a satirical poetry and theatre troupe from Myanmar charged with “undermining the military” and “online defamation”. The group’s five members, Kay Khine Tun, Zay Yar Lwin, Paing

The award-winning Iranian film director, Mohammad Rasoulof, has been sentenced to one year in prison and two years of probation in Tehran due to the unapproved content of his films.

Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi is a well-known Burmese filmmaker who has been detained in Yangon’s Insein Prison since April 12, 2019 and is currently on trial facing charges of