International human rights organisation Freemuse and CADAL, based in Denmark and Argentina respectively, express their concern about the resurgence of repression of referents of Cuban independent culture and express their solidarity with the artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, recently arbitrarily detained.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Freemuse joins over 100 musicians, writers and artists calling on the Ugandan government to drop a draft law limiting artistic freedom of expression.

"This will strangle artists and everyone who has the right to cultural expression and artistic freedom," Executive Director Srirak Plipat said.

A controversial bill making it a crime to disrespect the Chinese national anthem has been presented to lawmakers in Hong Kong.

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.