Incidents in Europe, national level, outcome reversed

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.

8 incidents match this view.

Date	Incident	Country	Tactic	Head of government	Outcome
December 20, 2023	Hungary: National Sovereignty Protection Act and Sovereignty Protection Office, December 2023	Hungary (RSF 2026 rank: 74th of 180)	Official labels	Viktor Orban	Reversed (June 30, 2026)
October 20, 1998	Serbia's Public Information Act lets courts fine independent newspapers into financial danger	Serbia (RSF 2026 rank: 104th of 180)	Insult and defamation laws	Slobodan Milosevic	Reversed (January 1, 2001)
October 1988	United Kingdom bars broadcasters from airing Sinn Féin members' own voices	United Kingdom (RSF 2026 rank: 18th of 180)	Licensing and closure of outlets	Margaret Thatcher	Reversed (September 16, 1994)
December 13, 1981	Poland's martial law government shuts nearly all newspapers and interns journalists overnight	Poland (RSF 2026 rank: 27th of 180)	Shutdowns and blocking	Wojciech Jaruzelski	Reversed (July 22, 1983)
August 21, 1968	Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia is followed by the return of government press press controls	Czechia (RSF 2026 rank: 11th of 180)	Prior restraint	Alexander Dubček	Reversed (November 1, 1989)
April 1938	Franco's Spain requires state permission to be a journalist under a wartime Press Law	Spain (RSF 2026 rank: 29th of 180)	Credential control	Francisco Franco	Reversed (April 1, 1977)
October 4, 1933	Nazi Germany's Editors Law bars Jewish journalists from the press and puts editors under state direction	Germany (RSF 2026 rank: 14th of 180)	Credential control	Adolf Hitler	Reversed (May 8, 1945)
1933	Portugal's Salazar government formally establishes press press controls under a new constitution	Portugal (RSF 2026 rank: 10th of 180)	Prior restraint	António de Oliveira Salazar	Reversed (April 25, 1974)

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