A fifth lawsuit has been filed against musician Ferhat Tunç, this time for “insulting the then Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım” on Twitter in 2016.

Russian theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov has been released from house arrest after 20 months of detention and announced his return to work.

Russian authorities have cancelled a youth theatre play for promoting “hatred against men and non-traditional family relations”.

Freemuse is pleased to learn that artist, activist and journalist Zehra Doğan has been released from a Turkish prison.

Turkish musician Azad Bedran has been sentenced to three years and nine months in jail over a music video.

Nine wedding singers in Turkey were detained and taken to court for allegedly praising terror organisations during wedding ceremony performances.

Turkish rapper Burry Soprano has been charged with promoting drug use in his hit song 'Mary Jane'.

A blogger from Tajikistan says he has received threats for the past year and was attacked in Moscow in front of a police officer.

A bishop in Poland has banned secular songs by artists including ABBA and The Beatles from weddings and funerals.

Three student activists were arrested and fined for dressing as police officers with rainbow epaulettes in a performance about homophobia in Belarus.