An Istanbul court extended an arrest warrant issued against Tunç to obtain his defence regarding the artist’s charges of “insulting the president."

The Side by Side (Bok o Bok) LGBTI film festival held in St. Petersburg was suspended for over an hour due to information relating to a bomb threat.

Freemuse interview with Pablo Hasél, a rapper and a pro-communist who performs “forbidden songs” which Spanish authorities believe glorify terrorism.

Guatemalan dancer Gato was detained by the Federal Border Police at Frankfurt Airport while on his way to a 6-month artistic residency in Norway.

Kazım Öz appeared before the court on 1 October 2019 on charges of “being a member of a terrorist organization”.

On 13 October 2019, a DJ was killed in a cafe in the Leningrad region because of the music he had been playing.

Freemuse speaks with the international organisation on the state of artistic freedom for cartoonists globally, discussing why cartoonists are so “essential to our democracies”.

“We stand with the artist and urge authorities to provide a just and commensurate response to his case,” says Delphine Pawlik, Freemuse Programme Manager.

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

After five years in a Russian prison, Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov has finally been released in a prisoner exchange between Ukrainian and Russian governments.