On 31 July 2018, Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour was sentenced to five months in prison on charges of inciting terrorism over a poem and online posts.

Russian actor Anton Makarsky has been banned from entering Ukraine for three years because he previously visited Crimea.

Border police confiscated photographs from Pristina-based artist Eliza Hoxha because they contained symbols of the Kosovo Liberation Army.

Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour is set be sentenced on 31 May after an Israeli court convicted her of supporting a terrorist organisation.

The Israeli court in Nazareth rejected Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour’s appeal to end her strict house arrest as she awaits a final verdict on her case.

  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, …

Film director Ziad Doueiri was held and questioned by security officers at the Beirut airport, then appeared in court for shooting a 2013 film in Israel.

Israeli authorities arrested three musicians for performing a song that authorities allege was an “incitement to terrorism and violence”.

Natalia Sharina, ex-director of the Library of Ukrainian Literature in Moscow, was found guilty of having “extremist literature” at the library.

Ukraine has banned Russian singer Julia Samoilova from entering the country for the next three years due to her giving a performance in Crimea in 2015.