Search: lawsuits against the press, stage: punish

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Date	Incident	Country	Tactic	Head of government	Outcome
14 January 2022	Türkiye: journalist Sedef Kabas tried for insulting the president	Türkiye (RSF 2026 rank: 163rd of 180)	Lawsuits against the press	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	Ongoing (22 June 2023)
15 June 2020	Philippines: Maria Ressa convicted of cyber libel	Philippines (RSF 2026 rank: 114th of 180)	Lawsuits against the press	Rodrigo Duterte	Ongoing (15 June 2020)
1960	United States: Montgomery, Alabama commissioner sues The New York Times for libel over a civil rights advertisement	United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180)	Lawsuits against the press	John Patterson	Reversed (9 March 1964)
4 March 1909	United States: President Theodore Roosevelt seeks criminal libel indictments against the New York World and the Indianapolis News over Panama Canal reporting	United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180)	Insult and defamation laws	Theodore Roosevelt	Reversed (3 January 1911)
1901	Philippines: United States colonial government's libel law is used to close the newspaper El Renacimiento	Philippines (RSF 2026 rank: 114th of 180)	Insult and defamation laws	William Howard Taft	Upheld by a court (1 January 1914)

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