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Incidents: prior restraint in Europe, stage: silence

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.

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Date	Incident	Country	Tactic	Head of government	Outcome
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 (16 September 1994)
21 August 1968	Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia is followed by the return of government press controls	Czechia (RSF 2026 rank: 11th of 180)	Prior restraint	Alexander Dubček	Reversed (1 November 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 (1 April 1977)
1933	Portugal's Salazar government formally establishes press controls under a new constitution	Portugal (RSF 2026 rank: 10th of 180)	Prior restraint	António de Oliveira Salazar	Reversed (25 April 1974)
1922	Soviet Russia creates Glavlit, a central office to review all printed material before publication	Russia (RSF 2026 rank: 172nd of 180)	Prior restraint	Vladimir Lenin	Ongoing (1 January 1989)

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