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Incidents: licensing and closure of outlets, stage: silence, national level

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.

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Date	Incident	Country	Tactic	Head of government	Outcome
4 March 2024	Milei's government shuts down Argentina's state news agency Telam	Argentina (RSF 2026 rank: 98th of 180)	Funding and ownership pressure	Javier Milei	Sustained
13 February 2023	Cambodia: Prime Minister Hun Sen orders Voice of Democracy's license revoked over one article	Cambodia (RSF 2026 rank: 151st of 180)	Licensing and closure of outlets	Hun Sen	Sustained (13 February 2023)
5 September 2022	Russia: a Moscow court suspends Novaya Gazeta's print license	Russia (RSF 2026 rank: 172nd of 180)	Licensing and closure of outlets	Vladimir Putin	Sustained (5 September 2022)
24 June 2021	China (Hong Kong): Apple Daily closes after its assets are frozen under the national security law	Hong Kong (RSF 2026 rank: 140th of 180)	Licensing and closure of outlets	Carrie Lam	Sustained (24 June 2021)
8 March 2021	Myanmar junta revokes five outlets' licenses and raids newsrooms after coup	Myanmar (RSF 2026 rank: 166th of 180)	Licensing and closure of outlets	Min Aung Hlaing	Sustained
14 February 2021	Hungary: Klubradio loses its terrestrial broadcast license over its tender application	Hungary (RSF 2026 rank: 74th of 180)	Licensing and closure of outlets	Viktor Orban	Upheld by a court (1 September 2021)
4 September 2017	Cambodia's government forces the closure of The Cambodia Daily with a disputed multimillion-dollar tax bill	Cambodia (RSF 2026 rank: 151st of 180)	Licensing and closure of outlets	Hun Sen	Sustained (4 September 2017)
27 July 2016	Turkey closes more than 100 media outlets by decree after a failed coup attempt	Türkiye (RSF 2026 rank: 163rd of 180)	Licensing and closure of outlets	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	Sustained (31 December 2016)
27 May 2007	Venezuela: the government declines to renew RCTV's broadcast concession	Venezuela (RSF 2026 rank: 159th of 180)	Licensing and closure of outlets	Hugo Chavez	Sustained (8 September 2015)
12 September 2003	Zimbabwe: police close the Daily News under the media registration law	Zimbabwe (RSF 2026 rank: 124th of 180)	Licensing and closure of outlets	Robert Mugabe	Reversed (27 May 2010)
14 April 2001	State-controlled Gazprom takes formal control of Russia's independent NTV television network	Russia (RSF 2026 rank: 172nd of 180)	Funding and ownership pressure	Vladimir Putin	Sustained (14 April 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 (16 September 1994)
31 July 1980	South Korea's martial-law government purges journalists who resisted press controls	South Korea (RSF 2026 rank: 47th of 180)	Licensing and closure of outlets	Chun Doo-hwan	Reversed (1 June 1987)
26 June 1975	India imposes pre-press controls on every newspaper during the 1975 Emergency	India (RSF 2026 rank: 157th of 180)	Prior restraint	Indira Gandhi	Reversed (21 March 1977)
24 May 1960	Egypt's Nasser government nationalizes every newspaper and magazine in the country	Egypt (RSF 2026 rank: 169th of 180)	Funding and ownership pressure	Gamal Abdel Nasser	Ongoing (1 January 1989)
17 July 1950	South Africa's Suppression of Communism Act lets the government ban publications and restrict individuals	South Africa (RSF 2026 rank: 21st of 180)	Prior restraint	Daniel François Malan	Reversed (31 July 1991)
1939	Brazil's Vargas government creates a state messaging department with broad press powers	Brazil (RSF 2026 rank: 52nd of 180)	Licensing and closure of outlets	Getúlio Vargas	Reversed (1 January 1945)
4 October 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 (8 May 1945)
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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