The Guatemalan congress approved a decree banning Swedish dark metal band Marduk from entering the country because of their “satanic” lyrics.

Uzbekistan has blacklisted a further 103 films, including the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy and horror flicks such as It and Leatherface.

An Indian artist has faced backlash over his illustration of a bloodied sanitary pad ahead of a festival celebrating the Hindu goddess Durga.

Activists are taking to the streets of Kuwait City to protest government censorship that has blacklisted more than 4,300 books in the last five years.

A movie about painter Egon Schiele was pulled from the European Film Festival in Yangon after Myanmar's censorship board banned scenes with nudity.

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.

Theatre duo detained by Iranian authorities over a video trailer for their production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Two artists had their artworks depicting nudity removed from a county fair in Ohio, with one artist allegedly accused of producing child pornography.