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      "title": "India: Gaon Savera's Facebook and X accounts blocked",
      "occurred_on": "2023-08-21",
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      "country": "IN",
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      "leader_name": "Narendra Modi",
      "issue_of_the_day": "Not stated in the sources reviewed.",
      "outcome": "unknown",
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      "outcome_note": "CPJ called on India to restore access; the source reviewed does not report whether the accounts were later unblocked.",
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      "ladder_note": "India blocked an independent outlet's Facebook and X accounts nationwide ahead of an event it planned to cover, without a stated reason; the White House ban limited three outlets' building access, not their reach online.",
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      "summary": "India blocked independent news outlet Gaon Savera's Facebook page and X account nationwide just before a workers' convention it planned to cover, without a public explanation from the government.",
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      "slug": "2023-cambodia-shutters-voice-of-democracy",
      "title": "Cambodia: Prime Minister Hun Sen orders Voice of Democracy's license revoked over one article",
      "occurred_on": "2023-02-13",
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      "leader_name": "Hun Sen",
      "issue_of_the_day": "The article, published February 8, 2023, reported that Hun Sen's son and eventual successor, Hun Manet, had overstepped his authority by signing a $100,000 earthquake aid agreement for Turkiye.",
      "outcome": "sustained",
      "outcome_on": "2023-02-13",
      "outcome_note": "The Ministry of Information revoked the license as Hun Sen ordered, with no reversal reported in the source reviewed.",
      "stage": "silence",
      "ladder_note": "The head of government personally ordered a national outlet's operating license revoked over one article, rejecting a published apology, rather than pursuing a defamation suit.",
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        "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
        "year": 2026,
        "rank": 151,
        "of": 180,
        "label": "RSF 2026 rank: 151st of 180",
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      "era": "2020s",
      "granularity": "granular",
      "status": "in_effect",
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      "summary": "Prime Minister Hun Sen personally ordered the license of independent outlet Voice of Democracy revoked over an article about an earthquake-aid agreement signed by his son, rejecting the outlet's published apology.",
      "url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2023-cambodia-shutters-voice-of-democracy"
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      "slug": "2021-hong-kong-apple-daily-forced-closure",
      "title": "China (Hong Kong): Apple Daily closes after its assets are frozen under the national security law",
      "occurred_on": "2021-06-24",
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      "country": "HK",
      "country_name": "Hong Kong",
      "continent": "asia",
      "jurisdiction": "HK",
      "level": "national",
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      "leader_name": "Carrie Lam",
      "issue_of_the_day": "The closure followed Hong Kong's 2019 to 2020 pro-democracy protests and Beijing's imposition of a national security law on the territory in June 2020, which criminalized broadly defined acts of subversion and collusion with foreign forces.",
      "outcome": "sustained",
      "outcome_on": "2021-06-24",
      "outcome_note": "Apple Daily did not resume publication and its former executives faced additional charges as of the December 2021 report reviewed.",
      "stage": "silence",
      "ladder_note": "A newspaper's assets were frozen and its senior editors charged with offenses carrying up to life imprisonment, ending publication entirely rather than a licensing dispute or fine.",
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        "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
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        "of": 180,
        "label": "RSF 2026 rank: 140th of 180",
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      "granularity": "granular",
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      "summary": "Apple Daily, Hong Kong's largest pro-democracy newspaper, printed its final edition after the government froze its parent company's assets and arrested its editors under the national security law imposed on the territory in 2020.",
      "url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2021-hong-kong-apple-daily-forced-closure"
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      "slug": "2021-myanmar-junta-revokes-media-licenses",
      "title": "Myanmar junta revokes five outlets' licenses and raids newsrooms after coup",
      "occurred_on": "2021-03-08",
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      "continent": "asia",
      "jurisdiction": "MM",
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      "leader_slug": "min-aung-hlaing",
      "leader_name": "Min Aung Hlaing",
      "issue_of_the_day": "The outlets had been covering nationwide protests against the military's February 1, 2021 seizure of power from Myanmar's elected government, coverage the junta sought to stop by removing the outlets' legal authorization to operate.",
      "outcome": "sustained",
      "outcome_on": null,
      "outcome_note": "The five outlets' licenses were not restored; CPJ counted at least 32 journalists still imprisoned as of July 2021.",
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        "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
        "year": 2026,
        "rank": 166,
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        "source_url": "https://rsf.org/en/index"
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      "era": "2020s",
      "granularity": "granular",
      "status": "in_effect",
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      "summary": "Weeks after seizing power, Myanmar's military junta revoked the operating licenses of five independent media outlets covering protests against the coup and raided two of their newsrooms, seizing computers and files; journalists from the outlets were later arrested and charged under a broadened penal-code provision on spreading 'false news.'",
      "url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2021-myanmar-junta-revokes-media-licenses"
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      "slug": "2021-myanmar-military-internet-shutdown",
      "title": "Myanmar: military cuts mobile internet after seizing power",
      "occurred_on": "2021-02-01",
      "occurred_on_precision": "month",
      "country": "MM",
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      "continent": "asia",
      "jurisdiction": "MM",
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        "shutdowns_and_blocking"
      ],
      "leader_slug": "min-aung-hlaing",
      "leader_name": "Min Aung Hlaing",
      "issue_of_the_day": "Not stated in the sources reviewed.",
      "outcome": "ongoing",
      "outcome_on": "2021-05-03",
      "outcome_note": "As of the May 2021 source, mobile data remained cut in parts of the country, including large areas of Rakhine State.",
      "stage": "silence",
      "ladder_note": "Myanmar's military cut mobile data nationwide after seizing power, leaving reporters in entire townships unable to file; United States funding and access actions have not shut off a region's communications.",
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        "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
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        "label": "RSF 2026 rank: 166th of 180",
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      "era": "2020s",
      "granularity": "granular",
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      "summary": "After seizing power on February 1, 2021, Myanmar's military cut mobile data service nationwide, leaving reporters in rural townships and Rakhine State unable to send news and blocking large areas from outside communication for months.",
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