Musician Cherif Atmani was arrested in Tizi Ouzou for carrying posters calling for the rejection of the presidential elections.

Uyghur signer Sanubar Tursun was booked to perform at a ceremony organised by the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, but she did not appear.

The Side by Side (Bok o Bok) LGBTI film festival held in St. Petersburg was suspended for over an hour due to information relating to a bomb threat.

Freemuse interview with Pablo Hasél, a rapper and a pro-communist who performs “forbidden songs” which Spanish authorities believe glorify terrorism.

Guatemalan dancer Gato was detained by the Federal Border Police at Frankfurt Airport while on his way to a 6-month artistic residency in Norway.

Writer Ahmet Altan has been re-arrested just over a week after his release after serving three years in prison on terror charges.

The appeals court upheld satirist Keyomars Marzban’s sentence of 23 years of imprisonment for writing on websites funded by the United States.

According to a publication, it is alleged that his activism could put him at higher risks of a targeted judicial response.

After five years of exile in Laos, the Thai protest band Faiyen arrived in France on August 2019 where they applied for asylum.

Kazım Öz appeared before the court on 1 October 2019 on charges of “being a member of a terrorist organization”.