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Date	Incident	Country	Tactic	Head of government	Outcome
10 February 2026	India: one-year prison sentence for the journalist Ravi Nair in a criminal defamation case, February 2026	India (RSF 2026 rank: 157th of 180)	Insult and defamation laws	Narendra Modi	Unknown (10 February 2026)
5 September 2025	Serbian police strike, detain and disarm journalists covering anti-government protests	Serbia (RSF 2026 rank: 104th of 180)	Detention and violence	Aleksandar Vucic	Ongoing
3 September 2025	Ethiopia arrests at least six journalists including Sheger FM staff over election-year coverage	Ethiopia (RSF 2026 rank: 148th of 180)	Detention and violence	Abiy Ahmed	Ongoing (22 September 2025)
19 March 2025	Türkiye: detention, injury and deportation of journalists covering protests, March 2025	Türkiye (RSF 2026 rank: 163rd of 180)	Detention and violence	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	Unknown (2 April 2025)
3 February 2025	Journalists beaten in Bangladesh in separate incidents as interim government drafts new cyber laws	Bangladesh (RSF 2026 rank: 152nd of 180)	Detention and violence	Muhammad Yunus	Ongoing
16 January 2025	Tunisia's cybercrime decree pushes jailed-journalist count to highest since 1992	Tunisia (RSF 2026 rank: 137th of 180)	Insult and defamation laws	Kais Saied	Sustained
28 July 2024	Venezuela detains, expels and restricts journalists after disputed 2024 election	Venezuela (RSF 2026 rank: 159th of 180)	Detention and violence	Nicolas Maduro	Sustained
1 November 2023	Turkish authorities detain three journalists under 'disinformation' law	Türkiye (RSF 2026 rank: 163rd of 180)	Insult and defamation laws	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	Ongoing
14 June 2023	Guatemala convicts investigative journalist Jose Ruben Zamora on money-laundering charge	Guatemala (RSF 2026 rank: 128th of 180)	Detention and violence	Alejandro Giammattei	Ongoing
29 March 2023	Russia: Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich sentenced to 16 years	Russia (RSF 2026 rank: 172nd of 180)	Detention and violence	Vladimir Putin	Reversed (1 August 2024)
8 February 2023	Belarus: journalist Andrzej Poczobut sentenced to eight years	Belarus (RSF 2026 rank: 165th of 180)	Detention and violence	Alexander Lukashenko	Reversed (28 April 2026)
6 November 2021	FBI raids Project Veritas founder's home over Ashley Biden diary investigation	United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180)	Surveillance and subpoenas	Joe Biden	Unknown
18 May 2021	Belarus blocks Tut.by and arrests its editors as 'extremist'	Belarus (RSF 2026 rank: 165th of 180)	Shutdowns and blocking	Alexander Lukashenko	Sustained
8 March 2021	Myanmar junta revokes five outlets' licenses and raids newsrooms after coup	Myanmar (RSF 2026 rank: 166th of 180)	Licensing and closure of outlets	Min Aung Hlaing	Sustained
23 July 2020	Federal officers restrict press access to Portland protests; judge orders them to stop	United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180)	Access bans	Donald Trump	Reversed (23 July 2020)
14 May 2020	China: citizen journalist Zhang Zhan imprisoned for Wuhan reporting	China (RSF 2026 rank: 178th of 180)	Detention and violence	Xi Jinping	Ongoing
13 February 2019	Philippines: Rappler's Maria Ressa arrested over cyber libel case	Philippines (RSF 2026 rank: 114th of 180)	Detention and violence	Rodrigo Duterte	Reversed (14 February 2019)
2 October 2018	Saudi Arabia's government kills journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside its Istanbul consulate	Saudi Arabia (RSF 2026 rank: 176th of 180)	Detention and violence	Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud	Unknown
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)
1 September 2015	Azerbaijan: investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova sentenced to 7.5 years	Azerbaijan (RSF rank: not recorded)	Detention and violence	Ilham Aliyev	Reversed (25 May 2016)
29 December 2013	Egypt arrests and later convicts three Al Jazeera journalists on terrorism-related charges	Egypt (RSF 2026 rank: 169th of 180)	Detention and violence	Adly Mansour	Reversed (23 September 2015)
18 August 2013	United Kingdom detains journalist's partner under terrorism law and oversees destruction of Guardian hard drives holding Snowden files	United Kingdom (RSF 2026 rank: 18th of 180)	Surveillance and subpoenas	David Cameron	Upheld by a court (19 January 2016)
5 July 2010	United States charges Army analyst Chelsea Manning under the Espionage Act for leaking to WikiLeaks	United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180)	Secrets and espionage laws	Barack Obama	Reversed (17 January 2017)
7 October 2006	Investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya is shot dead in Moscow; a former police officer is later convicted of organizing the killing	Russia (RSF 2026 rank: 172nd of 180)	Detention and violence	Vladimir Putin	Upheld by a court (9 June 2014)
18 September 2001	Eritrea: independent press closed and journalists jailed without trial	Eritrea (RSF rank: not recorded)	Detention and violence	Isaias Afwerki	Ongoing
1997	Belarus jails journalist Pavel Sheremet over his reporting for Russian television station ORT	Belarus (RSF 2026 rank: 165th of 180)	Detention and violence	Alexander Lukashenko	Sustained
July 1995	Nigeria's military government convicts journalists by special tribunal over coup-plot reporting	Nigeria (RSF 2026 rank: 112th of 180)	Detention and violence	Sani Abacha	Reversed (15 June 1998)
17 January 1991	United States military restricts reporters to escorted press pools during the Gulf War	United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180)	Access bans	George H. W. Bush	Sustained (28 February 1991)
18 September 1988	Burma's new military government tightens pre-publication press controls after seizing power	Myanmar (RSF 2026 rank: 166th of 180)	Prior restraint	Saw Maung	Ongoing (1 January 1989)
30 August 1986	Soviet Union: arrest and seven-week detention of American correspondent Nicholas Daniloff in Moscow, 1986	Russia (RSF 2026 rank: 172nd of 180)	Detention and violence	Mikhail Gorbachev	Reversed (29 September 1986)
13 December 1981	Poland's martial law government shuts nearly all newspapers and interns journalists overnight	Poland (RSF 2026 rank: 27th of 180)	Shutdowns and blocking	Wojciech Jaruzelski	Reversed (22 July 1983)
1980	Haiti's Duvalier government arrests and deports Radio Haiti-Inter staff, driving its director into exile	Haiti (RSF 2026 rank: 107th of 180)	Expulsion and visa denial	Jean-Claude Duvalier	Reversed (1 February 1986)
31 July 1980	South Korea's martial-law government purges journalists who resisted press controls	South Korea (RSF 2026 rank: 47th of 180)	Licensing and closure of outlets	Chun Doo-hwan	Reversed (1 June 1987)
19 October 1977	South Africa bans The World and Weekend World newspapers and detains editor Percy Qoboza	South Africa (RSF 2026 rank: 21st of 180)	Licensing and closure of outlets	Balthazar Johannes Vorster	Sustained (1 March 1978)
24 March 1976	Argentina's military junta threatens journalists with prison for reporting on its opponents	Argentina (RSF 2026 rank: 98th of 180)	Detention and violence	Jorge Rafael Videla	Reversed (10 December 1983)
11 September 1973	Chile's military government shuts opposition radio stations and newspapers after the 1973 coup	Chile (RSF 2026 rank: 70th of 180)	Shutdowns and blocking	Augusto Pinochet	Sustained (1 March 1990)
21 September 1972	Philippines President Marcos closes every major news outlet under martial law	Philippines (RSF 2026 rank: 114th of 180)	Shutdowns and blocking	Ferdinand Marcos	Reversed (25 February 1986)
26 October 1962	West Germany: police raid Der Spiegel's offices and arrest its editors over a defense article	Germany (RSF 2026 rank: 14th of 180)	Detention and violence	Konrad Adenauer	Unknown
17 July 1950	South Africa's Suppression of Communism Act lets the government ban publications and restrict individuals	South Africa (RSF 2026 rank: 21st of 180)	Prior restraint	Daniel François Malan	Reversed (31 July 1991)
3 September 1939	Canada: War Measures Act regulations authorize review of hundreds of newspapers and ban political organizations	Canada (RSF 2026 rank: 20th of 180)	Prior restraint	William Lyon Mackenzie King	Sustained (31 December 1945)
26 June 1918	United States convicts newspaper editor Jacob Frohwerk under the Espionage Act, June 1918	United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180)	Secrets and espionage laws	Woodrow Wilson	Upheld by a court (10 March 1919)
1917	United States convicts Mother Earth editor Emma Goldman of draft conspiracy and bars her magazine from the mail	United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180)	Detention and violence	Woodrow Wilson	Upheld by a court (14 January 1918)
9 March 1913	Ottoman Empire bars lawmakers and officials from editing newspapers and jails a leading editor	Türkiye (RSF 2026 rank: 163rd of 180)	Licensing and closure of outlets	Mehmed V	Sustained (9 March 1913)

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