US rapper Nelly and Algerian singer Cheb Khaled are set to perform a concert in Jeddah to an only male audience, a move that has drawn mixed reactions.

US singer Katy Perry has become the latest artist banned from China allegedly “indefinitely” due to wearing a sunflower dress at her 2015 Taiwan concert.

Pakistan’s Central Board of Film Censors (CBFC) lifted the ban on film ”Verna” on 16 November 2017, one day before its scheduled opening.

Tibetan monk and song lyricist Lobsang Jinpa was released from prison on 30 October 2017 after serving out his full five-year sentence.

Freemuse and 17 other organisations have sent an open letter to Equatorial Guinea's President calling for the release of cartoonist Ramón Esono Ebalé.

A play set to be performed in private catholic schools was cancelled over its gender equality material; the decision was reversed days later.

A swift US government policy change states that it now owns the art created by Guantánamo detainees and has the legal right to do with it what they wish.

South Africa-based Zimbabwean singer Berita Khumalo was attacked on stage while performing at the Plett Chill Out event on 30 September 2017.

An artist group withdrew from the Kuala Lumpur Biennale 2017 after authorities allegedly removed parts of their work they deemed as “elements of communism”.

Marco Alvarado’s exhibition at the Museum of Las Conceptas in Cuenca was closed three months earlier than planned due to complaints from religious groups.