Search: secrets and espionage laws in Asia

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Date	Incident	Country	Tactic	Head of government	Outcome
15 December 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 (RSF 2026 rank: 140th of 180)	Detention and violence	John Lee	Sustained (8 February 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)
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)
14 December 2021	Vietnam: journalist Pham Doan Trang is sentenced to nine years for anti-state "propaganda"	Viet Nam (RSF rank: not recorded)	Secrets and espionage laws	Nguyen Xuan Phuc	Sustained (14 December 2021)
3 September 2018	Myanmar sentences two Reuters journalists to seven years under the Official Secrets Act for reporting on a massacre	Myanmar (RSF 2026 rank: 166th of 180)	Secrets and espionage laws	Aung San Suu Kyi	Reversed (7 May 2019)
8 June 2009	North Korea: American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee are sentenced to hard labor	North Korea (RSF rank: not recorded)	Secrets and espionage laws	Kim Jong Il	Reversed (4 August 2009)
1926	Dutch East Indies: Colonial authorities end publication of the communist newspaper Mawa under Penal Code Article 153 bis, 1926	Indonesia (RSF rank: not recorded)	Licensing and closure of outlets	Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff	Sustained (1 January 1926)

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