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      "slug": "2025-bangladesh-journalists-attacked-interim-government",
      "title": "Journalists beaten in Bangladesh in separate incidents as interim government drafts new cyber laws",
      "occurred_on": "2025-02-03",
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      "issue_of_the_day": "The incidents occurred six months into the interim government that took power after Sheikh Hasina's government fell in August 2024, a period in which press-freedom groups said journalists faced both continued street violence and new draft cyber-security legislation.",
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      "status": "in_effect",
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      "summary": "On a single day in February 2025, groups of men beat at least eight journalists in two separate incidents in rural Bangladesh while they investigated a medical-negligence tip and a land dispute; the incidents came as the interim government led by Muhammad Yunus drafted new cyber ordinances rights groups said could add legal risk on top of the physical one.",
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      "title": "Turkish authorities detain three journalists under 'disinformation' law",
      "occurred_on": "2023-11-01",
      "occurred_on_precision": "day",
      "country": "TR",
      "country_name": "Türkiye",
      "continent": "asia",
      "jurisdiction": "TR",
      "level": "national",
      "tactic_primary": "insult_and_defamation_laws",
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        "detention_and_violence",
        "insult_and_defamation_laws"
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      "leader_slug": "recep-tayyip-erdogan",
      "leader_name": "Recep Tayyip Erdoğan",
      "issue_of_the_day": "Sardan had written about an alleged Turkish intelligence report on judicial corruption, which the government's Center for Combating Disinformation denied existed; Halk TV's Dincer Gokce had reported on people released from prison who were later linked to further crimes.",
      "outcome": "ongoing",
      "outcome_on": null,
      "outcome_note": "Two of the three journalists were released within a day; Tolga Sardan remained jailed pending trial.",
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        "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
        "year": 2026,
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        "of": 180,
        "label": "RSF 2026 rank: 163rd of 180",
        "source_url": "https://rsf.org/en/index"
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      "era": "2020s",
      "granularity": "granular",
      "status": "in_effect",
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      "summary": "Turkish authorities detained three journalists, jailing columnist Tolga Sardan pending trial, under a 2022 law criminalizing the spread of disinformation, after the government's own disinformation-fighting body disputed their reporting on a leaked intelligence document and a story about released prisoners.",
      "url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2023-turkiye-detains-journalists-disinformation-law"
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      "title": "China: citizen journalist Zhang Zhan imprisoned for Wuhan reporting",
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      "issue_of_the_day": "Not stated in the sources reviewed.",
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      "outcome_note": "Zhang completed her original four-year sentence and was released in 2024, but the sources reviewed report a second case against her the following year.",
      "stage": "eliminate",
      "ladder_note": "China imprisoned a citizen journalist for four years over her Wuhan reporting, then opened a second case against her after release; United States detention incidents in the record ended in release the same day.",
      "rsf": {
        "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
        "year": 2026,
        "rank": 178,
        "of": 180,
        "label": "RSF 2026 rank: 178th of 180",
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      },
      "era": "2020s",
      "granularity": "granular",
      "status": "in_effect",
      "case_count": 0,
      "summary": "China detained citizen journalist Zhang Zhan for posting independent video reports from Wuhan during the early COVID-19 outbreak, later convicting her of \"picking quarrels and provoking trouble\" and, after her release, detaining her again years later.",
      "url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2020-china-arrests-zhang-zhan"
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      "title": "Burma's new military government tightens pre-publication press controls after seizing power",
      "occurred_on": "1988-09-18",
      "occurred_on_precision": "day",
      "country": "MM",
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      "continent": "asia",
      "jurisdiction": "MM",
      "level": "national",
      "tactic_primary": "prior_restraint",
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      "leader_slug": "saw-maung",
      "leader_name": "Saw Maung",
      "issue_of_the_day": "SLORC had just taken power after crushing the August 1988 pro-democracy uprising, sometimes called 8888 for its start date, and used the Press Scrutiny Board to prevent coverage sympathetic to the uprising or critical of military rule.",
      "outcome": "ongoing",
      "outcome_on": "1989-01-01",
      "outcome_note": "The Press Scrutiny Board's pre-publication press controls remained fully in force at the end of 1989 and continued operating for decades afterward.",
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      "era": "1980s",
      "granularity": "anchor",
      "status": "historical",
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      "summary": "After crushing the 1988 pro-democracy uprising, Burma's new military government, the State Law and Order Restoration Council, tightened an existing pre-publication press controls board and raised penalties for unauthorized publishing to seven years in prison, while denying any press controls existed.",
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