Seenaa Solomon is an Oromo singer from Ethiopia who along with six other individuals, including members of her music group and a producer, has been detained since late 2016. On

Liu Xia, the widow of democracy activist and Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, has been kept under house arrest without charge since 2010. A 56 year-old poet and photographer, Liu

Indian poet Surjit Gag was arrested July 9, 2017 for blasphemy, on charges of hurting religious sentiments. He is alleged to have violated section 295(A) of the Indian Penal Code,

Silya Ziani, a protest singer from Morocco’s Rif region, was arrested on June 5, 2017, while traveling by taxi with a group of three other activists to Casablanca. She remains

Musa Kart is a well known Turkish cartoonist, famous for his regular satirical work in the country’s oldest newspaper, Cumhuriyet. Kart was arrested in October 2016 along with eight others,

Yoswaris Chuklom, widely known under his stage name Jeng Dokchik, is a prominent Thai comedian and a leader in the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) movement. During a

Sadiq Zazzabi is a Nigerian Hausa-language musician who was arraigned on March 1, 2017 by the Kano State Censorship Board. Sadiq released his new song, “Maza bayan ka” (“All Men

Sedat Laçiner is an author, academic and columnist with particular reference to Turkish foreign policy and the Middle East. He is one of thousands imprisoned following the failed coup attempt

The activist and artist, Chen Yunfei, has been tortured for extended periods in a Chinese prison. Chen told his lawyer, Sui Muqing, that he was tortured twice for violating the

Street artist, Danilo Maldonado Machado, known as El Sexto, was arrested in Havana, Cuba Saturday, November 26th. There have been no official charges, but authorities have stated that he was