Libya's RADA Special Deterrent Forces shut down a comic book convention in Tripoli and arrested the event organisers for violating public morality.

  On 22 October 2017, Ramallah city officials banned Lebanese-French director Ziad Doueiri’s film “The Insult” from being screened at the end of the Cinema Days film festival, after groups called for his boycott, claiming the director supports the agenda of Israel “normalization”, reported BBC. One group – the Boycott, …

On 21 October 2017, a group of protesters, who led chants against secularism, attempted to destroy a sculpture and shut down an exhibition in Istanbul.

Popular and influential Uyghur singer Abdurehim Heyit has been detained and held without formal charge in regional capital Urumchi since April 2017.

Writers Kancha Ilaiah & Hansda Showvendra Sekhar have suffered long-term intimidation by various groups over their literary works.

On 22 September 2017, a “Nos Années Folles” film poster, featuring nudity and a transvestite man, was removed from a cinema in Senlis by a public servant.

Punjab Film Censor Board banned Pakistani film “Na Maloom Afraad 2” over "persistent complaints" only to reverse its decision two days later.

Sculptor Ronald “Foots” Kynes was charged on 16 October for “displaying an obscene object for public exhibition" related to sculptures on his property.

The popular Iranian streaming movies website, TinyMoviez, which featured pirated material, was shut down for distributing “indecent” foreign films.

After an absence of more than three decades, music and female singers’ voices returned to Saudi Arabia's official cultural TV channel.