A section of the Aichi Triennale 2019 art festival  featuring the 'Statue of a Girl of Peace' was shut down in Nagoya following protests.

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.

Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof has been sentenced to one year in prison for "spreading propaganda" against the Islamic republic.

Pleas for help have escalated from the Thai protest band Faiyen who remains exiled in Laos after fleeing Thailand in 2014.

Freemuse is pleased to learn that artist, activist and journalist Zehra Doğan has been released from a Turkish prison.

Ferhat Tunç is being prosecuted for his peaceful expression … again. Your actions are important and can make a difference in Ferhat’s life and the lives of others like him in Turkey. Stand in solidarity with these artists and demand that Turkey drop all the charges against Ferhat Tunç. Ferhat is now having to defend himself in an appeal of the recent ruling and two other pending cases against him. Together, the charges of all three amount to more than 13 years imprisonment.

Freemuse, along with 17 other organisations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have sent an open letter to Equatoguinean President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo calling for the release of artist Ramón Esono Ebalé on the 60th day of his detention without charge.

An arrest warrant was issued against musician Ferhat Tunç for "spreading terrorist propaganda" before the closing of the investigation.

Celebrated Uyghur singer Zahirshah Ablimit and his parents are reportedly being detained in re-education camps in Xinjiang.

Turkish musician Azad Bedran has been sentenced to three years and nine months in jail over a music video.