| 18 September 2026 | CNN, MS NOW, Politico hard passes deactivated, 2026 | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Access bans | Donald Trump | Ongoing (21 September 2026) |
| 20 August 2026 | Kazakhstan: fabricated copyright complaints used against journalists | Kazakhstan (RSF rank: not recorded) | Lawsuits against the press | Kassym-Jomart Tokayev | Ongoing (20 August 2026) |
| 28 April 2026 | Appeals court orders FCC to respond to challenge over 'news distortion' policy | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Funding and ownership pressure | Donald Trump | Ongoing (28 April 2026) |
| 10 March 2026 | Hungary: a ruling-party mayor forcibly removes Telex reporters from a campaign event | Hungary (RSF 2026 rank: 74th of 180) | Access bans | Viktor Orban | Ongoing (10 March 2026) |
| 15 October 2025 | United States: News organizations turn in their Pentagon press credentials, October 2025 | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Credential control | Donald Trump | Ongoing (9 April 2026) |
| 19 September 2025 | United States: Department of Defense press credential rules requiring approval before release of information, September 2025 | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Credential control | Donald Trump | Ongoing (9 April 2026) |
| 15 September 2025 | Trump files, then refiles, $15 billion defamation suit against the New York Times | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Lawsuits against the press | Donald Trump | Ongoing (16 October 2025) |
| 5 September 2025 | Serbian police strike, detain and disarm journalists covering anti-government protests | Serbia (RSF 2026 rank: 104th of 180) | Detention and violence | Aleksandar Vucic | Ongoing |
| 3 September 2025 | Ethiopia arrests at least six journalists including Sheger FM staff over election-year coverage | Ethiopia (RSF 2026 rank: 148th of 180) | Detention and violence | Abiy Ahmed | Ongoing (22 September 2025) |
| 18 July 2025 | Trump sues Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch over Epstein birthday letter story | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Lawsuits against the press | Donald Trump | Ongoing |
| 15 March 2025 | United States: U.S. Agency for Global Media action to shut down Voice of America operations, March 2025 | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Funding and ownership pressure | Donald Trump | Ongoing (28 March 2025) |
| 11 February 2025 | United States: White House exclusion of the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One, February 2025 | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Access bans | Donald Trump | Ongoing (22 July 2025) |
| 3 February 2025 | Journalists beaten in Bangladesh in separate incidents as interim government drafts new cyber laws | Bangladesh (RSF 2026 rank: 152nd of 180) | Detention and violence | Muhammad Yunus | Ongoing |
| 31 January 2025 | United States (Louisiana): Federal court order blocking enforcement of the police buffer zone law, January 2025 | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Access bans | Jeff Landry | Ongoing (31 January 2025) |
| 22 January 2025 | FCC chair reopens 'news distortion' complaints against CBS and NBC | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Funding and ownership pressure | Donald Trump | Ongoing |
| 16 December 2024 | Trump sues Des Moines Register and pollster Ann Selzer over final Iowa poll | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Lawsuits against the press | Donald Trump | Ongoing (10 July 2026) |
| November 2024 | China: editor Dong Yuyu is sentenced to seven years for espionage over meals with a diplomat | China (RSF 2026 rank: 178th of 180) | Secrets and espionage laws | Xi Jinping | Ongoing (1 November 2024) |
| 20 August 2024 | Kazakhstan: new accreditation rules let officials withdraw a journalist's pass for off-topic questions | Kazakhstan (RSF rank: not recorded) | Credential control | Kassym-Jomart Tokayev | Ongoing (3 September 2024) |
| 24 May 2024 | United States (Louisiana): 25-foot buffer zone law around police officers, May 2024 | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Access bans | Jeff Landry | Ongoing (31 January 2025) |
| 17 January 2024 | Iran: journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi are sentenced to 13 and 12 years | Iran (RSF 2026 rank: 177th of 180) | Secrets and espionage laws | Ebrahim Raisi | Ongoing (17 January 2024) |
| 1 November 2023 | Turkish authorities detain three journalists under 'disinformation' law | Türkiye (RSF 2026 rank: 163rd of 180) | Insult and defamation laws | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | Ongoing |
| 14 June 2023 | Guatemala convicts investigative journalist Jose Ruben Zamora on money-laundering charge | Guatemala (RSF 2026 rank: 128th of 180) | Detention and violence | Alejandro Giammattei | Ongoing |
| 5 September 2022 | Russia: journalist Ivan Safronov is sentenced to 22 years for treason | Russia (RSF 2026 rank: 172nd of 180) | Secrets and espionage laws | Vladimir Putin | Ongoing (5 September 2022) |
| 22 January 2022 | Türkiye: journalist Sedef Kabas is arrested for a proverb about President Erdogan | Türkiye (RSF 2026 rank: 163rd of 180) | Insult and defamation laws | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | Ongoing (22 June 2023) |
| 14 January 2022 | Türkiye: journalist Sedef Kabas tried for insulting the president | Türkiye (RSF 2026 rank: 163rd of 180) | Lawsuits against the press | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | Ongoing (22 June 2023) |
| July 2021 | Hungary: investigative journalist Szabolcs Panyi's phone is infected with Pegasus spyware | Hungary (RSF 2026 rank: 74th of 180) | Surveillance and subpoenas | Viktor Orban | Ongoing (1 July 2021) |
| February 2021 | Myanmar: military cuts mobile internet after seizing power | Myanmar (RSF 2026 rank: 166th of 180) | Shutdowns and blocking | Min Aung Hlaing | Ongoing (3 May 2021) |
| November 2020 | Ethiopia: internet and phone service cut across Tigray | Ethiopia (RSF 2026 rank: 148th of 180) | Shutdowns and blocking | Abiy Ahmed | Ongoing (3 May 2021) |
| 15 June 2020 | Philippines: Maria Ressa convicted of cyber libel | Philippines (RSF 2026 rank: 114th of 180) | Lawsuits against the press | Rodrigo Duterte | Ongoing (15 June 2020) |
| 14 May 2020 | China: citizen journalist Zhang Zhan imprisoned for Wuhan reporting | China (RSF 2026 rank: 178th of 180) | Detention and violence | Xi Jinping | Ongoing |
| 5 August 2019 | India imposes a communications blackout in Jammu and Kashmir after revoking the region's special status | India (RSF 2026 rank: 157th of 180) | Shutdowns and blocking | Narendra Modi | Ongoing (5 August 2020) |
| 26 October 2018 | Russia: outlet fined $338,000 under the foreign agents law | Russia (RSF 2026 rank: 172nd of 180) | Lawsuits against the press | Vladimir Putin | Ongoing (26 October 2018) |
| October 2018 | Egypt: a license requirement leaves an independent news site unable to operate legally for years | Egypt (RSF 2026 rank: 169th of 180) | Prior restraint | Abdel Fattah el-Sisi | Ongoing (26 October 2020) |
| 1 September 2017 | Venezuela expels or denies entry to dozens of foreign journalists covering anti-government protests | Venezuela (RSF 2026 rank: 159th of 180) | Expulsion and visa denial | Nicolas Maduro | Ongoing (25 January 2018) |
| 18 September 2001 | Eritrea: independent press closed and journalists jailed without trial | Eritrea (RSF rank: not recorded) | Detention and violence | Isaias Afwerki | Ongoing |
| 20 December 1989 | United States: Pentagon press pool kept from the opening hours of the Panama invasion, December 1989 | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Access bans | George H. W. Bush | Ongoing (6 April 1990) |
| 18 September 1988 | Burma's new military government tightens pre-publication press controls after seizing power | Myanmar (RSF 2026 rank: 166th of 180) | Prior restraint | Saw Maung | Ongoing (1 January 1989) |
| 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) |
| 1948 | Israel retains a British-era law giving the military the power to review and restrict the press | Israel (RSF 2026 rank: 116th of 180) | Prior restraint | David Ben-Gurion | Ongoing (1 January 1989) |
| May 1926 | United Kingdom: Government requisitions newsprint and restricts rival newspapers during the 1926 General Strike | United Kingdom (RSF 2026 rank: 18th of 180) | Funding and ownership pressure | Stanley Baldwin | Ongoing (10 May 1926) |
| 1922 | Glavlit created: Soviet censorship office, 1922 | Russia (RSF 2026 rank: 172nd of 180) | Prior restraint | Vladimir Lenin | Ongoing (1 January 1989) |