Incidents: licensing and closure of outlets in Asia

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.

7 incidents match this view.

Date	Incident	Country	Tactic	Head of government	Outcome
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
March 8, 2021	Myanmar junta revokes five outlets' licenses and raids newsrooms after coup	Myanmar	Licensing and closure of outlets	Min Aung Hlaing	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)
July 31, 1980	South Korea's martial-law government purges journalists who resisted press controls	South Korea	Licensing and closure of outlets	Chun Doo-hwan	Reversed (June 1, 1987)
June 26, 1975	India imposes pre-press controls on every newspaper during the 1975 Emergency	India	Prior restraint	Indira Gandhi	Reversed (March 21, 1977)

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