| July 10, 2026 | Customs officers seize Grayzone editor's phones at Virginia airport over Iran reporting | United States | Surveillance and subpoenas | Donald Trump | Reversed (July 17, 2026) |
| September 17, 2025 | United States: Federal Communications Commission chairman's remarks and the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, September 2025 | United States | Funding and ownership pressure | Donald Trump | Reversed (September 23, 2025) |
| March 2024 | Bombay High Court strikes down India's government 'fact check unit' rule | India | Official labels | Narendra Modi | Reversed (September 20, 2024) |
| December 20, 2023 | Hungary: National Sovereignty Protection Act and Sovereignty Protection Office, December 2023 | Hungary | Official labels | Viktor Orban | Reversed (June 30, 2026) |
| August 11, 2023 | Police raid Marion County Record newsroom and publisher's home in Kansas | United States | Surveillance and subpoenas | Laura Kelly | Reversed (August 5, 2024) |
| July 21, 2023 | Federal court strikes down Arizona's law banning recording police within 8 feet | United States | Access bans | Doug Ducey | Reversed (July 21, 2023) |
| July 20, 2021 | Court orders RCMP to stop restricting press access at Fairy Creek logging blockades | Canada | Access bans | John Horgan | Reversed (July 20, 2021) |
| July 19, 2021 | Justice Department bars seizing reporters' phone and email records | United States | Surveillance and subpoenas | Joe Biden | Reversed (April 25, 2025) |
| July 16, 2020 | Federal officers restrict press access to Portland protests; judge orders them to stop | United States | Access bans | Donald Trump | Reversed (July 16, 2020) |
| May 29, 2020 | Minnesota State Patrol arrests CNN crew live on air in Minneapolis | United States | Detention and violence | Tim Walz | Reversed (May 29, 2020) |
| April 15, 2020 | Australia's High Court invalidates warrant for raid on journalist Annika Smethurst | Australia | Surveillance and subpoenas | Scott Morrison | Reversed (May 27, 2020) |
| June 5, 2019 | Australian Federal Police raid the national broadcaster over reporting on alleged war crimes in Afghanistan | Australia | Surveillance and subpoenas | Scott Morrison | Reversed (October 15, 2020) |
| May 23, 2019 | United States indicts WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange under the Espionage Act | United States | Secrets and espionage laws | Donald Trump | Reversed (June 25, 2024) |
| November 7, 2018 | White House revokes CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's press credential after a news conference exchange with President Trump | United States | Credential control | Donald Trump | Reversed (November 19, 2018) |
| November 7, 2018 | United States: White House suspension of CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's hard pass, November 2018 | United States | Credential control | Donald Trump | Reversed (November 19, 2018) |
| 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) |
| October 17, 2014 | United States pursues New York Times reporter James Risen's testimony for years before dropping its demand for his source | United States | Surveillance and subpoenas | Barack Obama | Reversed (October 17, 2014) |
| December 29, 2013 | Egypt arrests and later convicts three Al Jazeera journalists on terrorism-related charges | Egypt | Detention and violence | Adly Mansour | Reversed (September 23, 2015) |
| June 25, 2013 | Ecuador's Organic Communication Law creates a regulator that issues hundreds of sanctions against journalists and outlets | Ecuador | Funding and ownership pressure | Rafael Correa | Reversed (July 24, 2018) |
| July 5, 2010 | United States charges Army analyst Chelsea Manning under the Espionage Act for leaking to WikiLeaks | United States | Secrets and espionage laws | Barack Obama | Reversed (January 17, 2017) |
| October 20, 1998 | Serbia's Public Information Act lets courts fine independent newspapers into financial danger | Serbia | Insult and defamation laws | Slobodan Milosevic | Reversed (January 1, 2001) |
| July 1995 | Nigeria's military government convicts journalists by special tribunal over coup-plot reporting | Nigeria | Detention and violence | Sani Abacha | Reversed (June 15, 1998) |
| October 1988 | United Kingdom bars broadcasters from airing Sinn Féin members' own voices | United Kingdom | Licensing and closure of outlets | Margaret Thatcher | Reversed (September 16, 1994) |
| November 2, 1985 | South Africa bans television and photographic coverage of unrest under a state of emergency | South Africa | Shutdowns and blocking | P. W. Botha | Reversed (June 1, 1990) |
| October 25, 1983 | United States military bars journalists from the invasion of Grenada | United States | Access bans | Ronald Reagan | Reversed (April 1, 1985) |
| December 13, 1981 | Poland's martial law government shuts nearly all newspapers and interns journalists overnight | Poland | Shutdowns and blocking | Wojciech Jaruzelski | Reversed (July 22, 1983) |
| 1981 | Haiti's Duvalier government arrests and deports Radio Haiti-Inter staff, driving its director into exile | Haiti | Expulsion and visa denial | Jean-Claude Duvalier | Reversed (February 1, 1986) |
| 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) |
| March 24, 1976 | Argentina's military junta threatens journalists with prison for reporting on its opponents | Argentina | Detention and violence | Jorge Rafael Videla | Reversed (December 10, 1983) |
| 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) |
| August 16, 1971 | Nixon White House compiles an enemies list naming journalists for official pressure | United States | Surveillance and subpoenas | Richard Nixon | Reversed (June 27, 1973) |
| June 15, 1971 | United States government seeks an injunction to stop The New York Times publishing the Pentagon Papers | United States | Prior restraint | Richard Nixon | Reversed (June 30, 1971) |
| August 21, 1968 | Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia is followed by the return of government press press controls | Czechia | Prior restraint | Alexander Dubček | Reversed (November 1, 1989) |
| March 17, 1950 | South Africa's Suppression of Communism Act lets the government ban publications and restrict individuals | South Africa | Prior restraint | Daniel François Malan | Reversed (February 2, 1990) |
| April 16, 1944 | Australia's wartime government seizes a Sydney newspaper edition under press controls rules | Australia | Prior restraint | John Curtin | Reversed (April 18, 1944) |
| 1939 | Brazil's Vargas government creates a state messaging department with broad press powers | Brazil | Licensing and closure of outlets | Getúlio Vargas | Reversed (January 1, 1945) |
| April 1938 | Franco's Spain requires state permission to be a journalist under a wartime Press Law | Spain | Credential control | Francisco Franco | Reversed (April 1, 1977) |
| October 4, 1933 | Nazi Germany's Editors Law bars Jewish journalists from the press and puts editors under state direction | Germany | Credential control | Adolf Hitler | Reversed (May 8, 1945) |
| 1933 | Portugal's Salazar government formally establishes press press controls under a new constitution | Portugal | Prior restraint | António de Oliveira Salazar | Reversed (April 25, 1974) |
| 1927 | United States Supreme Court strikes down a Minnesota law used to shut a newspaper | United States | Prior restraint | Theodore Christianson | Reversed (June 1, 1931) |