Films with LGBT content or other “inappropriate culture” will not be approved by the Malaysian government’s Film Censorship Board.

The literary and artistic community in Bangladesh face significant restrictions in exercising their right to freedom of expression according to new report.

Cuba’s controversial new Decree 349 has officially come into effect, but how it will be enforced is yet to be determined.

Broad definitions & unclear procedures in many laws regulating artistic expression enable the arbitrary & abusive interpretation and application of the law.

Freemuse explores the effect and damage terrorism has had on cultural industries and artistic freedom on several continents over the past 20 years.

A group of Cuban artists was arrested before a scheduled public meditation as part of their campaign against the controversial new Decree 349.

Significant shortcomings in the promotion of democracy and human rights feature highly in the European Commission’s 2015 Progress Report on Turkey, which points to ‘significant backsliding’ on protection of freedom of expression in the last two years after several years of progress.

Artists, often rappers, are exposed to threats, assaults, prosecution and imprisonment by Tunisian authorities, terrorist groups and other non-state actors, according to a new stakeholder submission to the UN’s Universal Periodic Review process by Freemuse.

Morocco should replace unclear and vague provisions in the Penal Code and decriminalize the so-called “red line” offenses, according to a new joint stakeholder submission to the UN’s Universal Periodic Review process by Freemuse and Racines – two civil society organizations defending artistic freedom in Morocco and globally.

Zimbabwe should abolish its Censorship Act and any prior-censorship bodies or systems, according to a joint stakeholder submission to the UN’s Universal Periodic Review process (UPR) by Freemuse and Nhimbe – two civil society organisations defending artistic freedom in Zimbabwe and globally.