On October 11, Lindsey Grayzel and cameraman Carl Davis were arrested while filming activists as they attempted to shut down oil pipelines between Canada and the United States. They were

On October 11, Deia Schlosberg was arrested while filming activists as they attempted to shut down oil pipelines between Canada and the United States. She was acting as a journalist,

Amir Maghsoodloo, better known as Amir Tataloo is an Iranian R&B musician charged with “insulting the sacred” and “spreading corruption and indecency.” He was arrested on August 23, 2016 and

Atilla Taş is a Turkish singer, actor, and journalist born in Ceyhan who has spent his adult life between Istanbul and New York. He was best known as the singer

Zehra Doğan is a ethnic Kurdish painter and journalist from Diyarbakır, Turkey. She is best known as the editor of Jinha, a feminist Kurdish news agency reporting news in the

Fatima Naoot is a well-known and widely published Egyptian poet and journalist who was charged with “contempt of religion” for Facebook posts she wrote in October 2014 in which she

Ahmed Naji is an Egyptian novelist who is currently serving a two-year sentence for “injuring public modesty,” for which he was sentenced on February 20, 2016. Naji is a prominent

Thanat Thanawatcharanon, popularly known as Tom Dundee, is a Thai country and blues singer arrested in July 2014 on charges of “insulting the monarchy” under Thailand’s lèse majesté law, as

Fahmi Reza is a self-taught graphic designer and cartoonist from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia who was charged on June 6, 2016 with “violating multimedia laws” regarding a drawing of Prime Minister

Dawit Isaak, born in 1964, is a dual citizen of Eritrea and Sweden who has been imprisoned without trial in Eritrea since September, 2001. In the first 20 years of