Incidents: expulsion and visa denial, 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.

9 incidents match this view.

Date	Incident	Country	Tactic	Head of government	Outcome
January 7, 2026	Israel: ban on independent entry of foreign journalists into the Gaza Strip, 2023 to 2026	Israel	Access bans		Sustained (February 25, 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)
July 28, 2024	Venezuela detains, expels and restricts journalists after disputed 2024 election	Venezuela	Detention and violence	Nicolas Maduro	Sustained
February 16, 2023	Nicaragua strips 94 political opponents, including journalists, of citizenship	Nicaragua	Expulsion and visa denial	Daniel Ortega	Sustained
March 17, 2020	China expels American journalists from three major U.S. newspapers	China	Expulsion and visa denial	Xi Jinping	Sustained
September 1, 2017	Venezuela expels or denies entry to dozens of foreign journalists covering anti-government protests	Venezuela	Expulsion and visa denial	Nicolas Maduro	Ongoing (January 25, 2018)
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
June 14, 1989	China expels foreign journalists and restricts coverage of the Tiananmen Square protests	China	Expulsion and visa denial	Li Peng	Sustained (January 1, 1990)
1981	Haiti's Duvalier government arrests and deports Radio Haiti-Inter staff, driving its director into exile	Haiti	Expulsion and visa denial	Jean-Claude Duvalier	Reversed (February 1, 1986)

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