Ferhat Tunç is a Turkish musician currently indicted on three separate charges surrounding his use of social media to express a dissenting political opinion. Tunç’s 30-year career in Turkey and

Somali poet Naema Ahmed Ibrahim was arrested on January 27, 2018 as she attempted to travel from Hargeisa, Somaliland to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. A vocal activist for “greater

Since November 2017, at least four female music artists in Egypt have been detained, put on trial or imprisoned for various morality-related offenses.

Behnam Rohani-Fard is a Baha’i singer from Iran who was arrested on September 4, 2017 upon returning to Tehran from a concert tour in Europe. Released from solitary confinement on

Ramón Esono Ebalé is a political cartoonist and activist from Equatorial Guinea who was detained by State Security on September 16, 2017. Esono appeared before a judge on October 3,

Kirill Serebrennikov is a Russian theatre and film director who was detained on August 22, 2017 in St. Petersburg. The Russian government alleges that Serebrennikov embezzled 68 million roubles (about

Amy Collé Dieng is a popular Senegalese “mbalax” singer who was arrested on August 3, 2017 for insulting Senegal’s President Macky Sall. She was charged six days later with “offending

Divya Bharathi is an Indian activist and documentary filmmaker who was charged on August 3, 2017 with wrongly portraying the Pallar caste in her February documentary Kakkoos. Bharathi, whose film has

Alexei Wood is a San Antonio-based photographer and journalist currently facing 70 years in prison for eight felony charges he incurred after documenting anti-Donald Trump protests in Washington, D.C. the

Ali Avci is a Turkish filmmaker and producer who was arrested on July 13, 2017, one day after releasing a trailer for his new film Uyaniş (“Awakening”). He was remanded