# Incidents: credential control in Asia, national level

Each incident is a dated action by a government, an official, a regulator, a court or a legislature that limited journalists' ability to gather or publish news.

The number of entries reflects the depth of this record, not the severity of a country's conduct.

Filters: country, continent, tactic, stage, from, to, level, actor, leader, outlet, outcome, source_kind, has_case, plus q, sort (date, date_asc, country, tactic, relevance), per_page (up to 100), page and view (table or cards), as query parameters.

4 incidents match this view.

| Date | Incident | Country | Tactic | Head of government | Outcome |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 20 August 2024 | [Kazakhstan: new accreditation rules let officials withdraw a journalist's pass for off-topic questions](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2024-kazakhstan-restrictive-media-accreditation-rules) | [Kazakhstan](https://thewaronnews.com/countries/kz) (RSF rank: not recorded) | [Credential control](https://thewaronnews.com/tactics/credential_control) | [Kassym-Jomart Tokayev](https://thewaronnews.com/leaders/kassym-jomart-tokayev) | Ongoing (3 September 2024) |
| 1 April 2021 | [Turkiye: the presidency's press card system is found restrictive by the country's top administrative court](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2021-turkiye-press-card-controls-restrictive) | [Türkiye](https://thewaronnews.com/countries/tr) ([RSF 2026 rank: 163rd of 180](https://rsf.org/en/index)) | [Credential control](https://thewaronnews.com/tactics/credential_control) | [Recep Tayyip Erdoğan](https://thewaronnews.com/leaders/recep-tayyip-erdogan) | Reversed (1 April 2021) |
| 18 March 2020 | [China: press credentials and visas withheld from correspondents at three American newspapers](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2020-china-press-card-visa-restrictions-us-outlets) | [China](https://thewaronnews.com/countries/cn) ([RSF 2026 rank: 178th of 180](https://rsf.org/en/index)) | [Credential control](https://thewaronnews.com/tactics/credential_control) | [Xi Jinping](https://thewaronnews.com/leaders/xi-jinping) | Sustained (3 March 2021) |
| 17 March 2020 | [China expels American journalists from three major U.S. newspapers](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2020-china-expels-us-newspaper-journalists) | [China](https://thewaronnews.com/countries/cn) ([RSF 2026 rank: 178th of 180](https://rsf.org/en/index)) | [Expulsion and visa denial](https://thewaronnews.com/tactics/expulsion_and_visa_denial) | [Xi Jinping](https://thewaronnews.com/leaders/xi-jinping) | Sustained |

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