On August 1 2019, an exhibition of drawings and art films was cancelled at the Huam-Garok gallery in Seoul, South Korea due to alleged reasons of indecency.

A section of the Aichi Triennale 2019 art festival  featuring the 'Statue of a Girl of Peace' was shut down in Nagoya following protests.

The vocalist of Salvadoran metal band Apes of God was killed while the group was performing a concert in the town of Armenia in El Salvador.

Ahead of the 35th UPR session, Freemuse filed five reports to the UN’s official mechanism for reviewing the human rights record of all member states.

South Sudan President Salva Kiir has passed an order banning singing of the Sudanese national anthem in his absence.

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 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.