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Chinese Artist Gao Zhen Sentenced to Three Years for Satirical Mao Sculptures

Rights groups say the ruling applies a strengthened heroes-and-martyrs law retroactively and signals a widening crackdown on critical art.

Supreme Court Judge Says India Is Turning Ordinary Acts of Dissent Into Crimes

Japan Committee Approves Bill to Criminalize Public Damage to National Flag

Berlin Raids Target Activists Over Protest Poster Depicting AfD Leader With Nazi Imagery

Yabloko Deputy Leader Sentenced to Seven Years for Telegram Posts

FIFA Accredits Imprisoned French Reporter Christophe Gleizes

Moscow Court Upholds Eight‑and‑a‑Half‑Year Sentence for Satirist Jacques Tilly

MP High Court Quashes FIR Against Teacher Over Urdu Poem WhatsApp Status

Munich Court Acquits AfD MEP Petr Bystron in 'Hitler Salute' Photomontage Case

Bombay High Court Quashes 2010 FIR Against Bharti Singh and Shekhar Suman Over TV Joke

LDP Backs Flag‑Damage Offense Judged by Acts, Not Intent

Algerian Court Sentences Novelist Kamel Daoud to Three Years Over ‘Houris’

Rights Groups Press Kazakhstan to End Journalist Prosecutions and Scrap 'False Information' Law

Moscow Court Sentences German Satirist to 8.5 Years in Absentia Over Putin Float

Moscow Court Sentences German Satirist Jacques Tilly to 8½ Years in Absentia

Michoacán Fires Two Educators Over Student Dance Depicting Violence

Germany Probes Historian Over Hitler–Putin Satire as Munich Drops Fleischhauer Case

High Court Upholds Acquittal in London Koran-Burning Case, Rejects CPS Appeal

Brazil Appeals Court Acquits Comedian Léo Lins in 2–1 Vote

Rome Judge Dismisses Case Against 29 Over Acca Larentia Roman Salutes