Human rights and civil society organisations reject the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs' statement, classifying CADAL and its employees as political subversives.

Ai-Da, a robot artist, and Aidan Meller, the robot’s creator, were released after being detained for ten days under the suspicion of “espionage”.

The City Council of Castellón was ordered to withdraw sets of LGTBI-themed books distributed to institutions for alleged violation of "religious freedom".

Photographer Mehmet Özer was sentenced to one year and three months of imprisonment for “making propaganda for a terrorist organisation”.

In the two months since historic mass demonstrations swept through Cuba on July 11, there have been at least 39 documented arrests of artists related to the protests, four of whom were subjected to trial without a jury.

Rapper Toomaj Salehi was released on bail after the Iranian Security Forces arrested him over songs criticising the authorities.

Rapper Nokrolik (real name Yevgeny Petrov) was sentenced to one-year imprisonment for allegedly insulting the President of Belarus in a song.

HKAC cancelled musician and activist Denise Ho's venue for concerts planned to be staged at HKAC due to “public safety” reasons.

Artist Ilya Pershin was sentenced to three years in prison over the alleged attack on a police officer during the protest in support of Alexei Navalny.

Filmmaker Maung Thein Dan was arrested and charged with “supporting anti-government protests” over the alleged sale of anti-coup protests’ footage.