Targeting and persecuting female artist has become a trend observed in Iran relating to religious regulations.

Freemuse Executive Director Dr Srirak Plipat said, “The imprisoned members of Peacock Generation are entitled to the right to exercise their art as a vehicle for expression – including criticise authorial powers and to hold them to account."

University campuses in the USA have been host to the emerging trend of censoring artworks–historical or otherwise–in an extension of what is known as the ‘cancel culture’ movement.

Iranian Education Minister has deemed videos of schoolchildren dancing as “disturbing” and part of the greater plot to undermine the Islamic Republic.

The removal of two video installations on 27 April at the National Museum in Warsaw has led to a series of banana-eating protests across Poland.

Egyptian poet Galal El-Behairy has been conditionally released from a Civilian Court-imposed sentence that he received for his art. However, he will stay in prison after being sentenced to three years and receiving a 480 euro fine for his unreleased poetry book.

Poet will stay behind bars, having been sentenced to 3 years in prison and 10 000 Egyptian pounds (480 euros) fine in the Military Court in Cairo.

A fifth lawsuit has been filed against musician Ferhat Tunç, this time for “insulting the then Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım” on Twitter in 2016.

Russian theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov has been released from house arrest after 20 months of detention and announced his return to work.

The report is an analysis of 673 cases of violations of artistic freedom that occurred in different cultural spheres in 80 countries throughout 2018.