Guatemalan dancer Gato was detained by the Federal Border Police at Frankfurt Airport while on his way to a 6-month artistic residency in Norway.

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

US singer Katy Perry has become the latest artist banned from China allegedly “indefinitely” due to wearing a sunflower dress at her 2015 Taiwan concert.

Canadian immigration authorities denied travel visas to two Iranian actresses who were set to attend a film festival where their movie was being screened.

Rapper Valtonyc and his lawyer confirmed they have appealed to the Spanish Supreme Court to repeal a 3.5-year prison sentence on charges over to his lyrics.

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.

Belarusian security agents apprehended Ukrainian writer Serhiy Zhadan, detained him overnight and ordered him to leave the country by the end of the day.

Cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, popularly known as Zunar, was arrested on 26 November 2016 for breaching the peace under Malaysia’s Sedition Act, just one day after an angry pro-government mob attacked his exhibition of satirical cartoons about the prime minister and other national leaders at the George Town Literary Festival, …

A Cairo court ordered the release of four members of the satirist troupe ‘Street Children’ after it granted their appeal over a tenth renewal of their pre-trial detention that would have extended their already four-month-long imprisonment by 15 more days, though the investigation on various charges related to their online …

Belarusian singer Max Korzh was denied entry into Ukraine on 17 February 2016 where he was due to go on his five-city tour in the country in early March, reported BBC Ukraine on 26 February 2016. While organisers said the tour would be postponed until later in the year, press …