Ahead of the 35th UPR session, Freemuse filed five reports to the UN’s official mechanism for reviewing the human rights record of all member states.

A Montreal museum's social media ads featuring Pablo Picasso masterpieces were rejected by Facebook because of the site's nudity policy.

An Iranian teenager was detained after she posted videos on social media of herself dancing to pop music without wearing a headscarf.

Writers Kancha Ilaiah & Hansda Showvendra Sekhar have suffered long-term intimidation by various groups over their literary works.

The popular Iranian streaming movies website, TinyMoviez, which featured pirated material, was shut down for distributing “indecent” foreign films.

Online media platforms continue to come under fire for taking down content, including artistic works, seemingly arbitrarily or unevenly.

American rapper Mykki Blanco’s latest music video ‘Loner’ was taken down from YouTube on 2 December 2016 as it didn’t meet “community guidelines”; hours later the video was put back on the site, but now with a “content warning” and viewers need to sign in to confirm their age, reported …

Music fans in China have reported that several major Chinese music and video streaming platforms, as well as the Chinese iTunes store, have removed, blocked or filtered out the music and online content of pop star Denise Ho, who has been active in the Hong Kong independence and pro-democracy movement …

Maltese rock band Brikkuni have been dropped from the Farsons Beer Festival by the beverage company due to Facebook comments lead singer Mario Vella posted about the prime minister’s wife, reported Malta Today on 27 June 2016. Vella’s post was covered extensively by the prime minister’s party media company which …

Australian artist Illma Gore might permanently be banned from Facebook for posting her pencil drawing of nude US presidential hopeful Donald Trump in mid-February 2016, she told arts website Hyperallergic in a story published on 11 March 2016. Though Gore posted her drawing to a private group on 10 February …