Uzbekistan has blacklisted a further 103 films, including the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy and horror flicks such as It and Leatherface.

A Saudi woman has lost a two-year legal battle to marry a man who her family says is "religiously incompatible" with her because he plays the lute.

An Indian artist has faced backlash over his illustration of a bloodied sanitary pad ahead of a festival celebrating the Hindu goddess Durga.

A Liberian music producer was arrested and allegedly assaulted by police after revealing he was behind a hit protest song criticising the government.

Activists are taking to the streets of Kuwait City to protest government censorship that has blacklisted more than 4,300 books in the last five years.

A movie about painter Egon Schiele was pulled from the European Film Festival in Yangon after Myanmar's censorship board banned scenes with nudity.

Ugandan musician Viboyo was detained on charges of offensive communication for allegedly using obscene words to insult the president in a song.

An underwater art gallery in the Maldives was partially destroyed after a court ruled the human sculptures were anti-Islamic ‘idols’.

A Turkish TV broadcaster has been fined for playing Pink’s video clip for ‘Secrets’, which shows “erotic dance figures of a homosexual nature”.

Artist Seelan Palay has been jailed for two weeks after being convicted and fined for 'staging an unlawful performance without a permit' in Singapore.