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      "slug": "2026-israel-maintains-ban-on-foreign-press-access-to-gaza",
      "title": "Israel: ban on independent entry of foreign journalists into the Gaza Strip, 2023 to 2026",
      "occurred_on": "2026-01-07",
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      "country": "IL",
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      "issue_of_the_day": "The war in Gaza, which began in October 2023.",
      "outcome": "sustained",
      "outcome_on": "2026-02-25",
      "outcome_note": "In effect as of CPJ's report of 2026-02-25; the government asked Israel's Supreme Court in January 2026 to keep the ban.",
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      "summary": "Since the war in Gaza began in October 2023, the government of Israel has barred foreign journalists from entering the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian territory on the Mediterranean coast between Israel and Egypt, independently; foreign correspondents have entered only on trips escorted by the Israeli military. On January 7, 2026, Al Jazeera reported that the Foreign Press Association, which represents journalists from international news organizations, had condemned the government's decision to keep the ban. The government had told Israel's Supreme Court that the ban should be maintained due to \"security reasons,\" according to Al Jazeera. On February 25, 2026, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported that the ban was still in place.",
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      "title": "China expels American journalists from three major U.S. newspapers",
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      "country": "CN",
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        "expulsion_and_visa_denial"
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      "leader_name": "Xi Jinping",
      "issue_of_the_day": "The expulsions followed a rapid exchange of measures: a Wall Street Journal opinion piece China objected to, the U.S. capping Chinese state-media staff, and China's decision to expel American reporters from three outlets in response, all unfolding as the coronavirus pandemic was spreading globally.",
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        "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
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        "of": 180,
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      "era": "2020s",
      "granularity": "granular",
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      "summary": "China ordered American correspondents for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post to leave the country, in a reciprocal response to the Trump administration capping the number of Chinese state-media employees allowed in the United States, which itself followed China's earlier expulsion of three Journal reporters over an opinion headline.",
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      "slug": "2019-india-revokes-taseer-oci-status",
      "title": "India: journalist Aatish Taseer's overseas citizenship revoked",
      "occurred_on": "2019-11-07",
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      "country": "IN",
      "country_name": "India",
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      "jurisdiction": "IN",
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      "leader_slug": "narendra-modi",
      "leader_name": "Narendra Modi",
      "issue_of_the_day": "Not stated in the sources reviewed.",
      "outcome": "sustained",
      "outcome_on": "2019-11-07",
      "outcome_note": "The cancellation was carried out and was not reported as reversed in the sources reviewed.",
      "stage": "punish",
      "ladder_note": "India revoked a journalist's long-term immigration status months after his cover story criticized the prime minister; the White House ban withdrew building access, not legal status to enter the country.",
      "rsf": {
        "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
        "year": 2026,
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        "of": 180,
        "label": "RSF 2026 rank: 157th of 180",
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      "era": "2010s",
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      "summary": "India's government cancelled writer and journalist Aatish Taseer's Overseas Citizen of India status months after he wrote a Time magazine cover story critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, citing his father's Pakistani nationality.",
      "url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2019-india-revokes-taseer-oci-status"
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      "slug": "2019-turkiye-deports-ans-boersma",
      "title": "Turkiye: Dutch freelance journalist Ans Boersma deported",
      "occurred_on": "2019-01-17",
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      "leader_slug": "recep-tayyip-erdogan",
      "leader_name": "Recep Tayyip Erdoğan",
      "issue_of_the_day": "Not stated in the sources reviewed.",
      "outcome": "sustained",
      "outcome_on": "2019-01-17",
      "outcome_note": "The deportation was not reported as reversed in the sources reviewed.",
      "stage": "punish",
      "ladder_note": "A foreign correspondent was detained overnight and deported on an allegation her own government said it was never asked to confirm; the White House ban has not deported a journalist from the country.",
      "rsf": {
        "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
        "year": 2026,
        "rank": 163,
        "of": 180,
        "label": "RSF 2026 rank: 163rd of 180",
        "source_url": "https://rsf.org/en/index"
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      "era": "2010s",
      "granularity": "granular",
      "status": "historical",
      "case_count": 0,
      "summary": "Turkish authorities detained Dutch freelance journalist Ans Boersma while she tried to renew her residence permit in Istanbul and deported her the next day, citing an alleged link to a Syrian armed group that the Netherlands said it had never been asked about.",
      "url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2019-turkiye-deports-ans-boersma"
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      "slug": "1989-china-tiananmen-foreign-journalists-expelled",
      "title": "China expels foreign journalists and restricts coverage of the Tiananmen Square protests",
      "occurred_on": "1989-06-14",
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      "country": "CN",
      "country_name": "China",
      "continent": "asia",
      "jurisdiction": "CN",
      "level": "national",
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        "expulsion_and_visa_denial"
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      "leader_slug": "li-peng",
      "leader_name": "Li Peng",
      "issue_of_the_day": "Student-led pro-democracy protests had occupied Tiananmen Square for weeks before the government declared martial law and then used the military to clear the square in early June 1989, and moved to control international coverage of the events that followed.",
      "outcome": "sustained",
      "outcome_on": "1990-01-01",
      "outcome_note": "Martial law in Beijing was lifted in January 1990, but broad Chinese government controls on foreign press coverage continued well beyond that date.",
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      "era": "1980s",
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      "summary": "After declaring martial law in Beijing on May 20, 1989, China's government imposed rigid restrictions on coverage of pro-democracy protests and, following the military's June 3-4 clearing of Tiananmen Square, expelled Associated Press correspondent John Pomfret and Voice of America correspondent Alan Pessin.",
      "url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/1989-china-tiananmen-foreign-journalists-expelled"
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