Turkish singer and journalist Atilla Taş has been taken to jail to serve a three-year sentence over his alleged links to the Gülen movement.

The director of drama at the National Theatre in Belgrade was given the boot two days after complaining about budget allocations in a media interview.

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

Since its opening, censorship controversy has surrounded a new Robert Mapplethorpe photography exhibition at the Serralves Museum in Portugal.

Twitter has censored a cartoon by Charb, who was killed in the 2015 attack on the Charlie Hebdo headquarters in Paris.

Performance artist Marina Abramovic was assaulted by a man who smashed a paper portrait over her head after a book signing event in Florence, Italy.

The Ukrainian city of Lviv has banned all Russian-language cultural products such as books, films and songs.

Members of Spanish rap group La Insurgencia have had their two-year jail sentences for "supporting terrorism" reduced to six months on appeal.

Musician Ferhat Tunç has been sentenced in Turkey to one year, 11 months and 12 days in prison for “making propaganda of a terrorist organization”.

Ferhat Tunç is being prosecuted for his peaceful expression … again. Your actions are important and can make a difference in Ferhat’s life and the lives of others like him in Turkey. Stand in solidarity with these artists and demand that Turkey drop all the charges against Ferhat Tunç. Ferhat is now having to defend himself in an appeal of the recent ruling and two other pending cases against him. Together, the charges of all three amount to more than 13 years imprisonment.