Incidents in Asia, outcome unknown

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.

6 incidents match this view.

Date	Incident	Country	Tactic	Head of government	Outcome
February 10, 2026	India: one-year prison sentence for the journalist Ravi Nair in a criminal defamation case, February 2026	India	Insult and defamation laws	Narendra Modi	Unknown (February 10, 2026)
March 19, 2025	Türkiye: detention, injury and deportation of journalists covering protests, March 2025	Türkiye	Detention and violence	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	Unknown (April 2, 2025)
February 14, 2023	Indian tax authorities search BBC offices weeks after Modi documentary ban	India	Surveillance and subpoenas	Narendra Modi	Unknown
October 2, 2018	Saudi Arabia's government kills journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside its Istanbul consulate	Saudi Arabia	Detention and violence	Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud	Unknown
June 21, 2009	Iran expels a BBC correspondent and restricts foreign journalists after a disputed 2009 election	Iran	Expulsion and visa denial	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad	Unknown
September 20, 1998	Malaysia pressures domestic media and monitors foreign correspondents after arresting former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim	Malaysia	Surveillance and subpoenas	Mahathir Mohamad	Unknown

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