Incidents in Asia, outcome sustained

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.

9 incidents match this view.

Date	Incident	Country	Tactic	Head of government	Outcome
January 7, 2026	Israel: ban on independent entry of foreign journalists into the Gaza Strip, 2023 to 2026	Israel	Access bans		Sustained (February 25, 2026)
December 15, 2025	China (Hong Kong): conviction and 20-year sentence of the media owner Jimmy Lai under the National Security Law, 2025 to 2026	Hong Kong	Detention and violence	John Lee	Sustained (February 8, 2026)
January 29, 2025	Pakistan amends cybercrime law to create new agency policing 'fake' online content	Pakistan	Official labels	Shehbaz Sharif	Sustained
May 28, 2024	Georgia enacts 'foreign influence' law requiring media to register as foreign-backed	Georgia	Official labels	Irakli Kobakhidze	Sustained
March 8, 2021	Myanmar junta revokes five outlets' licenses and raids newsrooms after coup	Myanmar	Licensing and closure of outlets	Min Aung Hlaing	Sustained
March 17, 2020	China expels American journalists from three major U.S. newspapers	China	Expulsion and visa denial	Xi Jinping	Sustained
September 4, 2017	Cambodia's government forces the closure of The Cambodia Daily with a disputed multimillion-dollar tax bill	Cambodia	Licensing and closure of outlets	Hun Sen	Sustained (September 4, 2017)
July 27, 2016	Turkey closes more than 100 media outlets by decree after a failed coup attempt	Türkiye	Licensing and closure of outlets	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	Sustained (December 31, 2016)
June 14, 1989	China expels foreign journalists and restricts coverage of the Tiananmen Square protests	China	Expulsion and visa denial	Li Peng	Sustained (January 1, 1990)

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