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  "name": "Chun Doo-hwan",
  "office": null,
  "role": "General and de facto head of South Korea's martial-law government",
  "country": "KR",
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      "slug": "1980-south-korea-chun-doo-hwan-press-purge",
      "title": "South Korea's martial-law government purges journalists who resisted press controls",
      "occurred_on": "1980-07-31",
      "occurred_on_precision": "day",
      "country": "KR",
      "country_name": "South Korea",
      "continent": "asia",
      "jurisdiction": "KR",
      "level": "national",
      "tactic_primary": "outlet_licensing",
      "tactics": [
        "detention_and_violence",
        "outlet_licensing"
      ],
      "leader_slug": "chun-doo-hwan",
      "leader_name": "Chun Doo-hwan",
      "issue_of_the_day": "Chun Doo-hwan's military government had just suppressed a pro-democracy uprising centered in the city of Kwangju in May 1980, and used the purge to remove journalists it associated with resistance to press controls during that period.",
      "outcome": "reversed",
      "outcome_on": "1987-06-01",
      "outcome_note": "South Korea's June 1987 democracy movement led to direct presidential elections and an easing of press controls; a 1986 leak of secret press guidelines had already embarrassed the government.",
      "stage": "silence",
      "ladder_note": null,
      "rsf": {
        "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
        "year": 2026,
        "rank": 47,
        "of": 180,
        "label": "RSF 2026 rank: 47th of 180",
        "source_url": "https://rsf.org/en/index"
      },
      "era": "1980s",
      "granularity": "anchor",
      "status": "historical",
      "case_count": 0,
      "summary": "Under General Chun Doo-hwan's martial-law government, South Korean authorities ordered newsrooms in 1980 to purge journalists who had resisted press controls or joined a May sit-in strike for press freedom, and closed 172 periodicals, dismissing roughly 2,000 journalists in total.",
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    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
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