Ugandan musician Ziggy Wine has died on 4 August 2019 as a result of injuries sustained after being abducted and tortured reports BBC Africa.

China’s National Office Against Pornographic and Illegal Publications has blocked three popular e-book platforms over “obscene” content.

Censorship due to nudity has become an issue amongst digital spaces making it harder for artists to share their work.

Ugandan activist and academic, Stella Nyanzi, finally appeared in court after numerous postponements of her case, after being arrested for her poetry.

Freemuse shares the latest report on Privatising Censorship, Digitising Violence: Shrinking Space of Women’s Rights to Create in the Digital Age.

Spotlight on detained performers and art censorship which occurred in May 2019.

Roskilde Festival Gives 1,5 m DKK Grant Over Three Years. Freemuse Calls For Artistic Freedom Defenders.

Freemuse calls on the General Judiciary of the Province of Tehran to repeal harsh sentencing of Confess band members Nikan “Siyanor” Khosravi and Arash “Chemical” Ilkhani and allow the musicians to return to Iran without fear of reprisal for expressing themselves artistically.

17-year-old Elijah Al-Amin was stabbed and killed for listening to rap music on 4 July 2019. The attacker felt "unsafe" because of rap music.

30 sea sculptures were demolished for being “anti-Islamic” and a threat to the “Islamic unity and peace within the Maldivian state”.