See the Music Freedom Day concert at Oslo’s Nobel Peace Center: nrk.no/nett-tv What happened on Music Freedom Day in 2008?3 March 2008 was observed as a global ‘Music Freedom Day’. Seminars and concerts were held in Norway, Afghanistan and Congo-Brazzaville. The concert in Oslo was broadcasted on national radio in …

Renowned photographer and activist Shahidul Alam has been released from Dhaka Central Jail on bail, after 107 days behind bars.

PEN International and Freemuse protest the continued detention of award-winning photographer, writer and activist Shahidul Alam.

Vietnamese singer Nguyen Tin and several concertgoers were allegedly beaten by police officers who shut down a show at a cafe in Ho Chi Minh City.

Nine charges of sedition against Malaysian political cartoonist Zunar, real name Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, were dropped on 30 July 2018.

The Malaysian government ordered the removal of two LGBT activists’ portraits from an exhibition because LGBT "is against the society norms”.

Disney’s new Winnie the Pooh film Christopher Robin won’t be shown in Chinese cinemas after the country’s film authorities denied its release.

Freemuse calls for the immediate release of Bangladeshi photographer and activist Shahidul Alam and charges against him to be dropped.

LGBT-themed children’s books have been banished to the closed sections of Hong Kong’s public libraries following pressure from an anti-gay rights group.

On 27 June 2018, popular Uzbekistan singer Ulugbek Rakhmatullayev's performance license was revoked by state institution Uzbekkontsert.