Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has gained a huge international following for his biting critiques and pranks on China's government. Now he has metalheads raising their finger horns to the sky for his heavy metal music video "Dumbass", from his...

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has turned up the volume with the first single from his foray into heavy metal. This video for "Dumbass" is based on the 81 days he spent in secretive detention in 2011.

The European Union's annual Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought went to a pair of detained Iranian human rights activists. Empty chairs represented lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and film-maker Jafar Panahi at the prize ceremony, where leaders praised t...

One crew of anonymous Syrian dissidents is fighting a hand-to-hand finger puppet war with a YouTube series promoting the revolution, entitled "Top Goon." It "does not mater where you are, but what counts is that you work to kick Bashar out of...

In China, the case of blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng has been kept from the public, but his supporters are drumming up support through a social media campaign. Chen is under house arrest after serving time in jail for defending villagers suffering a...