Sweden - 15 May 2019: Freemuse Executive Director Dr. Srirak Plipat spoke at the Swedish Performing Arts Biennial 2019.

The removal of two video installations on 27 April at the National Museum in Warsaw has led to a series of banana-eating protests across Poland.

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”.

The Tagansky Court in Moscow, Russia upheld the ban of the rapper Husky´s clip Judas as legal.

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'.