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Date	Incident	Country	Tactic	Head of government	Outcome
27 July 2016	Turkey closes more than 100 media outlets by decree after a failed coup attempt	Türkiye (RSF 2026 rank: 163rd of 180)	Licensing and closure of outlets	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	Sustained (31 December 2016)
4 March 2016	Türkiye: court installs trustees at Zaman newspaper	Türkiye (RSF 2026 rank: 163rd of 180)	Funding and ownership pressure	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	Sustained (4 March 2016)
31 December 2015	Poland's new government gains power to replace public broadcaster leadership, and journalists are dismissed	Poland (RSF 2026 rank: 27th of 180)	Funding and ownership pressure	Beata Szydlo	Sustained (31 December 2019)
September 2013	Vietnam: Decree 72 restricts blogs to personal information	Viet Nam (RSF rank: not recorded)	Official labels	Nguyen Tan Dung	Sustained (1 September 2013)
20 May 2013	United States search warrant names Fox News reporter James Rosen a possible co-conspirator in a leak case	United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180)	Surveillance and subpoenas	Barack Obama	Sustained (12 July 2013)
13 May 2013	United States Justice Department secretly seizes two months of Associated Press phone records	United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180)	Surveillance and subpoenas	Barack Obama	Sustained (12 July 2013)
21 December 2010	Hungary's parliament gives a government-appointed media council power to fine outlets for unbalanced coverage	Hungary (RSF 2026 rank: 74th of 180)	Funding and ownership pressure	Viktor Orban	Sustained (1 January 2011)
27 May 2007	Venezuela: the government declines to renew RCTV's broadcast concession	Venezuela (RSF 2026 rank: 159th of 180)	Licensing and closure of outlets	Hugo Chavez	Sustained (8 September 2015)
10 February 2003	Pentagon sets ground rules for journalists embedded with United States forces in Iraq	United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180)	Access bans	George W. Bush	Sustained (14 April 2003)
14 April 2001	State-controlled Gazprom takes formal control of Russia's independent NTV television network	Russia (RSF 2026 rank: 172nd of 180)	Funding and ownership pressure	Vladimir Putin	Sustained (14 April 2001)
July 1997	Peru strips television station owner Baruch Ivcher of his citizenship after critical reporting	Peru (RSF rank: not recorded)	Funding and ownership pressure	Alberto Fujimori	Sustained
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
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)
14 June 1989	China expels foreign journalists and restricts coverage of the Tiananmen Square protests	China (RSF 2026 rank: 178th of 180)	Expulsion and visa denial	Li Peng	Sustained (1 January 1990)
1987	Malaysia: Printing Presses and Publications Act amended to bar court review of publishing permits, 1987	Malaysia (RSF 2026 rank: 95th of 180)	Licensing and closure of outlets	Mahathir Mohamad	Sustained
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)
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)
28 September 1959	Cuba: Prime Minister Fidel Castro publicly criticizes Havana newspapers that questioned his government, September 1959	Cuba (RSF rank: not recorded)	Official labels	Fidel Castro	Sustained (11 May 1960)
November 1955	United States Senate panel subpoenas dozens of New York Times journalists over Communist ties	United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180)	Surveillance and subpoenas	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Sustained (1 December 1956)
19 September 1955	United States: Tallahatchie County, Mississippi sheriff segregates Black reporters at the Emmett Till murder trial, September 1955	United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180)	Access bans	Hugh L. White	Sustained
October 1951	Argentina: President Juan Perón's government hands the expropriated newspaper La Prensa to the CGT labor federation, October 1951	Argentina (RSF 2026 rank: 98th of 180)	Licensing and closure of outlets	Juan Perón	Sustained (1 October 1951)
19 December 1941	United States creates an Office of Censorship and a wartime code for the press	United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180)	Prior restraint	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Sustained (28 September 1945)
8 May 1941	Greece: collaborationist government creates a Directorate-General for Press and Radio to review films and publications before release	Greece (RSF rank: not recorded)	Prior restraint	Georgios Tsolakoglou	Sustained
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)
July 1937	Japan: government requires clearance to publish war news under the Newspaper Law, 1937	Japan (RSF rank: not recorded)	Prior restraint	Fumimaro Konoe	Sustained
28 February 1933	Germany: Reichstag Fire Decree suspends freedom of the press, February 1933	Germany (RSF 2026 rank: 14th of 180)	Licensing and closure of outlets	Adolf Hitler	Sustained (1 May 1945)
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)
27 August 1914	Britain's Official Press Bureau controls newspaper coverage of the First World War	United Kingdom (RSF 2026 rank: 18th of 180)	Prior restraint	Herbert Henry Asquith	Sustained (12 November 1914)
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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