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Incidents: secrets and espionage laws, 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.
16 incidents match this view.
| Date | Incident | Country | Tactic | Head of government | Outcome |
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| July 14, 2023 | Zimbabwe's Patriotic Act criminalizes journalists' contact with foreign governments | Zimbabwe | Secrets and espionage laws | Emmerson Mnangagwa | Sustained (July 14, 2023) |
| June 5, 2019 | Australian Federal Police raid the national broadcaster over reporting on alleged war crimes in Afghanistan | Australia | Surveillance and subpoenas | Scott Morrison | Reversed (October 15, 2020) |
| May 23, 2019 | United States indicts WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange under the Espionage Act | United States | Secrets and espionage laws | Donald Trump | Reversed (June 25, 2024) |
| September 3, 2018 | Myanmar sentences two Reuters journalists to seven years under the Official Secrets Act for reporting on a massacre | Myanmar | Secrets and espionage laws | Aung San Suu Kyi | Reversed (May 7, 2019) |
| October 17, 2014 | United States pursues New York Times reporter James Risen's testimony for years before dropping its demand for his source | United States | Surveillance and subpoenas | Barack Obama | Reversed (October 17, 2014) |
| December 29, 2013 | Egypt arrests and later convicts three Al Jazeera journalists on terrorism-related charges | Egypt | Detention and violence | Adly Mansour | Reversed (September 23, 2015) |
| October 10, 2013 | United States: Espionage Act prosecutions of sources for leaks to the press, 2009 to 2013 | United States | Secrets and espionage laws | Barack Obama | Unknown |
| May 20, 2013 | United States search warrant names Fox News reporter James Rosen a possible co-conspirator in a leak case | United States | Surveillance and subpoenas | Barack Obama | Sustained (July 12, 2013) |
| January 25, 2013 | United States prosecutes former CIA officer John Kiriakou under the Espionage Act for identifying a covert colleague to a journalist | United States | Secrets and espionage laws | Barack Obama | Upheld by a court (February 3, 2015) |
| July 5, 2010 | United States charges Army analyst Chelsea Manning under the Espionage Act for leaking to WikiLeaks | United States | Secrets and espionage laws | Barack Obama | Reversed (January 17, 2017) |
| July 6, 2005 | New York Times reporter Judith Miller jailed for refusing to name a confidential source in the Valerie Plame affair | United States | Surveillance and subpoenas | George W. Bush | Upheld by a court (September 29, 2005) |
| July 1995 | Nigeria's military government convicts journalists by special tribunal over coup-plot reporting | Nigeria | Detention and violence | Sani Abacha | Reversed (June 15, 1998) |
| June 15, 1971 | United States government seeks an injunction to stop The New York Times publishing the Pentagon Papers | United States | Prior restraint | Richard Nixon | Reversed (June 30, 1971) |
| December 19, 1941 | United States creates an Office of Censorship and a wartime code for the press | United States | Prior restraint | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Sustained (September 28, 1945) |
| July 1917 | United States postmaster bars the magazine The Masses from the mail under the Espionage Act | United States | Secrets and espionage laws | Woodrow Wilson | Upheld by a court (November 1, 1917) |
| 1917 | United States Postmaster General Burleson strips the Milwaukee Leader of its mailing rate | United States | Shutdowns and blocking | Woodrow Wilson | Upheld by a court (March 7, 1921) |
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