Nooshin Jafari is an Iranian culture reporter, cinematographer, and photojournalist who was arrested in early August 2019 in Tehran. She is currently being held incommunicado in an unknown location without

Stella Nyanzi is a celebrated Ugandan academic, feminist and queer activist, and poet who has been detained since November 2018. She was charged with “cyber harassment and offensive communication” of

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Cameroonian rapper Gaston Philippe Abe Abe, better known by his stage name Valsero, has been imprisoned without charge in his country’s capital, Yaoundé, since January 26, 2019. A longtime critic

Hafez Omar is a Palestinian graphic artist and activist who was arrested by Israeli soldiers at his home on March 13, 2019. He remains detained without charge or access to

British-Somalilander poet Abdirahman Abeys was arrested on January 12, 2019 in Hargeisa, Somaliland, one day after a poetry reading in which he criticized law enforcement in the disputed northern region

New York-based Chinese photographer Lu Guang has been detained incommunicado in China’s western Xinjiang province since early November 2018. Though his arrest was confirmed by Chinese authorities weeks later, details

Three Iranian citizens wanted by their government for apparent “blasphemy” against Islam and open criticism of the regime have been denied asylum in Denmark after a lengthy legal process, though

Prominent German-Kurdish filmmaker and actress Saide Inaç, better known by her stage name Hozan Cane, was detained in Turkey on June 22, 2018 as she campaigned for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’

Josep Miquel Arenas Beltrán, the often provocative and always political Spanish rapper better known as Valtònyc, faces three and a half years in prison should he return to Spain from