Nine wedding singers in Turkey were detained and taken to court for allegedly praising terror organisations during wedding ceremony performances.

Turkish rapper Burry Soprano has been charged with promoting drug use in his hit song 'Mary Jane'.

A blogger from Tajikistan says he has received threats for the past year and was attacked in Moscow in front of a police officer.

A bishop in Poland has banned secular songs by artists including ABBA and The Beatles from weddings and funerals.

Three student activists were arrested and fined for dressing as police officers with rainbow epaulettes in a performance about homophobia in Belarus.

A street performer dressed as Winnie the Pooh was banned from a public square in Madrid to avoid embarrassing Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Schoolchildren’s drawings depicting same-sex couples have been seized by Russian police and checked to see if they propagate “non-traditional values”.

Film director Kazım Öz was arrested by Turkish authorities on charges of “membership in a terror group” and “terrorist propaganda”.

A cat mural by street artist Joachim in Chichester, England was removed after complaints it was “inappropriate” and “attracting antisocial behaviour”.

Russian rapper Husky has been released from jail after a court overturned his 12-day prison sentence following intervention by Kremlin officials.