Rapper and social leader Sneider Múñoz Silv, a.k.a JS was shooted six times by two hitmen in his neighbourhood located in Cali, Colombia.

Artists, activists and journalists were detained to prevent them from gathering during an event organised as a tribute of poet José Martí.

Maykel Osorbo was briefly detained at the police station without an official cause. A few days before the detention, he announced an online concert.

The Cuban Institute of Radio and Television broadcasted a newscast during which the authorities accused artists and activists from the 27N group of being “financed by the United States”.

The court ruled a dismissal on the complaint filed against Las Tesis by The Chilean Police Force on the charges of “attack on authority” and “threat”.

Narcocorridos accordionist and member of the musical group Máximo Impacto, Gabino Ayala was killed in his car by a group of unknown individuals

‘The role of artists anywhere in the world can be understood as a journalistic task that records realities.’

We are extremely concerned for the state of artistic freedom in Cuba and the resultant hunger and thirst strikes in reaction to these prison sentences.

Activist Denis Solís was detained after sharing a video on 6 November of a police officer entering his house without a warrant.

  23 September: A Texas grand jury in Tyler County has indicted Netflix over allegedly promoting lewd visual material of clothed or partially clothed minors in the French movie Mignonnes / Cuties, according to the New York Post. The charges mention that the visual material “appeals to the prurient interest in sex, and has no serious, literary, artistic, political or …