Incidents: licensing and closure of outlets, 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.

20 incidents match this view.

Date	Incident	Country	Tactic	Head of government	Outcome
September 17, 2025	United States: Federal Communications Commission chairman's remarks and the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, September 2025	United States	Funding and ownership pressure	Donald Trump	Reversed (September 23, 2025)
September 3, 2025	Ethiopia arrests at least six journalists including Sheger FM staff over election-year coverage	Ethiopia	Detention and violence	Abiy Ahmed	Ongoing (September 22, 2025)
January 29, 2025	Pakistan amends cybercrime law to create new agency policing 'fake' online content	Pakistan	Official labels	Shehbaz Sharif	Sustained
June 20, 2024	Slovakia's parliament dissolves public broadcaster RTVS, replaces it with STVR	Slovakia	Licensing and closure of outlets	Robert Fico	Sustained (July 4, 2024)
March 4, 2024	Milei's government shuts down Argentina's state news agency Telam	Argentina	Funding and ownership pressure	Javier Milei	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
March 16, 2018	Tanzania requires bloggers and online publishers to register and pay an annual government fee	Tanzania	Licensing and closure of outlets	John Magufuli	Unknown (April 12, 2018)
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)
December 21, 2010	Hungary's parliament gives a government-appointed media council power to fine outlets for unbalanced coverage	Hungary	Funding and ownership pressure	Viktor Orban	Sustained (January 1, 2011)
March 15, 2002	Zimbabwe enacts a law requiring all journalists and media houses to hold government licenses	Zimbabwe	Licensing and closure of outlets	Robert Mugabe	Unknown
April 14, 2001	State-controlled Gazprom takes formal control of Russia's independent NTV television network	Russia	Funding and ownership pressure	Vladimir Putin	Sustained (April 14, 2001)
October 1988	United Kingdom bars broadcasters from airing Sinn Féin members' own voices	United Kingdom	Licensing and closure of outlets	Margaret Thatcher	Reversed (September 16, 1994)
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)
May 24, 1960	Egypt's Nasser government nationalizes every newspaper and magazine in the country	Egypt	Funding and ownership pressure	Gamal Abdel Nasser	Ongoing (January 1, 1989)
March 17, 1950	South Africa's Suppression of Communism Act lets the government ban publications and restrict individuals	South Africa	Prior restraint	Daniel François Malan	Reversed (February 2, 1990)
1939	Brazil's Vargas government creates a state messaging department with broad press powers	Brazil	Licensing and closure of outlets	Getúlio Vargas	Reversed (January 1, 1945)
October 4, 1933	Nazi Germany's Editors Law bars Jewish journalists from the press and puts editors under state direction	Germany	Credential control	Adolf Hitler	Reversed (May 8, 1945)
1922	Soviet Russia creates Glavlit, a central office to review all printed material before publication	Russia	Prior restraint	Vladimir Lenin	Ongoing (January 1, 1989)

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