Pakistan's relationship with music remains tenuous with religious leaders and police threatening and raiding music events or banning music outright.

A Tokyo court upheld a 2016 ruling fining artist Megumi Igarashi 400,000 yen (USD $3,500) for distributing obscene material related to her “vagina art”.

The Kenya Film Certification Board banned 6 US-produced cartoons after they described them as “normalising" and "glorifying homosexual behaviour”.

On 4 June 2017, two Mount Gambier radio DJs received a text message from the station's board telling them their was being shut down for indecency.

Palestinian film director and activist Maysaloun Hamoud has received a fatwa against her, as well as multiple death threats over her film ‘Bar Bahar’.

Posters for animated film ‘Smurfs: The Lost Village’ have been scrubbed of their lone female character, Smurfette, in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak.

South Korea’s public broadcaster KBS has banned four songs from K-pop star Psy’s latest album from being broadcast due to their lyrics.

Uganda’s Media Council banned a Dutch film for a screening at a festival because it “depicts and glorifies homosexuality”, among other objectionable scenes.

Cambodian officials banned actress Denny Kwan from working in the entertainment industry for a year due to her posting pictures of herself in sexy clothing.

Burgess Clark, artistic director of Boston Children’s Theatre, returned to his position after having been suspended due to controversy over a nude scene.