| February 10, 2026 | India: one-year prison sentence for the journalist Ravi Nair in a criminal defamation case, February 2026 | India | Insult and defamation laws | Narendra Modi | Unknown (February 10, 2026) |
| January 7, 2026 | Israel: ban on independent entry of foreign journalists into the Gaza Strip, 2023 to 2026 | Israel | Access bans | | Sustained (February 25, 2026) |
| December 15, 2025 | China (Hong Kong): conviction and 20-year sentence of the media owner Jimmy Lai under the National Security Law, 2025 to 2026 | Hong Kong | Detention and violence | John Lee | Sustained (February 8, 2026) |
| March 19, 2025 | Türkiye: detention, injury and deportation of journalists covering protests, March 2025 | Türkiye | Detention and violence | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | Unknown (April 2, 2025) |
| February 3, 2025 | Journalists beaten in Bangladesh in separate incidents as interim government drafts new cyber laws | Bangladesh | Detention and violence | Muhammad Yunus | Ongoing |
| January 29, 2025 | Pakistan amends cybercrime law to create new agency policing 'fake' online content | Pakistan | Official labels | Shehbaz Sharif | Sustained |
| August 29, 2024 | Hong Kong court convicts Stand News editors of sedition | Hong Kong | Insult and defamation laws | John Lee | Upheld by a court (September 26, 2024) |
| May 28, 2024 | Georgia enacts 'foreign influence' law requiring media to register as foreign-backed | Georgia | Official labels | Irakli Kobakhidze | Sustained |
| March 2024 | Bombay High Court strikes down India's government 'fact check unit' rule | India | Official labels | Narendra Modi | Reversed (September 20, 2024) |
| November 1, 2023 | Turkish authorities detain three journalists under 'disinformation' law | Türkiye | Insult and defamation laws | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | Ongoing |
| February 14, 2023 | Indian tax authorities search BBC offices weeks after Modi documentary ban | India | Surveillance and subpoenas | Narendra Modi | Unknown |
| March 8, 2021 | Myanmar junta revokes five outlets' licenses and raids newsrooms after coup | Myanmar | Licensing and closure of outlets | Min Aung Hlaing | Sustained |
| March 17, 2020 | China expels American journalists from three major U.S. newspapers | China | Expulsion and visa denial | Xi Jinping | Sustained |
| August 5, 2019 | India imposes a communications blackout in Jammu and Kashmir after revoking the region's special status | India | Shutdowns and blocking | Narendra Modi | Ongoing (August 5, 2020) |
| October 2, 2018 | Saudi Arabia's government kills journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside its Istanbul consulate | Saudi Arabia | Detention and violence | Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud | Unknown |
| 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) |
| September 4, 2017 | Cambodia's government forces the closure of The Cambodia Daily with a disputed multimillion-dollar tax bill | Cambodia | Licensing and closure of outlets | Hun Sen | Sustained (September 4, 2017) |
| July 27, 2016 | Turkey closes more than 100 media outlets by decree after a failed coup attempt | Türkiye | Licensing and closure of outlets | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | Sustained (December 31, 2016) |
| June 21, 2009 | Iran expels a BBC correspondent and restricts foreign journalists after a disputed 2009 election | Iran | Expulsion and visa denial | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | Unknown |
| September 20, 1998 | Malaysia pressures domestic media and monitors foreign correspondents after arresting former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim | Malaysia | Surveillance and subpoenas | Mahathir Mohamad | Unknown |
| June 14, 1989 | China expels foreign journalists and restricts coverage of the Tiananmen Square protests | China | Expulsion and visa denial | Li Peng | Sustained (January 1, 1990) |
| September 18, 1988 | Burma's new military government tightens pre-publication press controls after seizing power | Myanmar | Prior restraint | Saw Maung | Ongoing (January 1, 1989) |
| July 31, 1980 | South Korea's martial-law government purges journalists who resisted press controls | South Korea | Licensing and closure of outlets | Chun Doo-hwan | Reversed (June 1, 1987) |
| June 26, 1975 | India imposes pre-press controls on every newspaper during the 1975 Emergency | India | Prior restraint | Indira Gandhi | Reversed (March 21, 1977) |
| September 21, 1972 | Philippines President Marcos closes every major news outlet under martial law | Philippines | Shutdowns and blocking | Ferdinand Marcos | Reversed (February 25, 1986) |
| 1948 | Israel retains a British-era law giving the military the power to review and restrict the press | Israel | Prior restraint | David Ben-Gurion | Ongoing (January 1, 1989) |