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Date	Incident	Country	Tactic	Head of government	Outcome
15 March 2025	United States: U.S. Agency for Global Media action to shut down Voice of America operations, March 2025	United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180)	Funding and ownership pressure	Donald Trump	Ongoing (28 March 2025)
February 2021	Myanmar: military cuts mobile internet after seizing power	Myanmar (RSF 2026 rank: 166th of 180)	Shutdowns and blocking	Min Aung Hlaing	Ongoing (3 May 2021)
November 2020	Ethiopia: internet and phone service cut across Tigray	Ethiopia (RSF 2026 rank: 148th of 180)	Shutdowns and blocking	Abiy Ahmed	Ongoing (3 May 2021)
5 August 2019	India imposes a communications blackout in Jammu and Kashmir after revoking the region's special status	India (RSF 2026 rank: 157th of 180)	Shutdowns and blocking	Narendra Modi	Ongoing (5 August 2020)
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)
24 May 1960	Egypt's Nasser government nationalizes every newspaper and magazine in the country	Egypt (RSF 2026 rank: 169th of 180)	Funding and ownership pressure	Gamal Abdel Nasser	Ongoing (1 January 1989)
1948	Israel retains a British-era law giving the military the power to review and restrict the press	Israel (RSF 2026 rank: 116th of 180)	Prior restraint	David Ben-Gurion	Ongoing (1 January 1989)
1922	Soviet Russia creates Glavlit, a central office to review all printed material before publication	Russia (RSF 2026 rank: 172nd of 180)	Prior restraint	Vladimir Lenin	Ongoing (1 January 1989)

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