{
  "slug": "expulsion_and_visa_denial",
  "name": "Expulsion and visa denial",
  "definition": "A government expels correspondents who report from its territory for news organisations based in other countries, refuses them visas or accreditation, or declines to renew their permission to stay. The effect is less independent reporting from inside the country.",
  "notes": null,
  "first_recorded_on": "2025-03-19",
  "incident_count": 2,
  "by_country": [
    {
      "country": "IL",
      "country_name": "Israel",
      "count": 1,
      "by_year": {
        "2026": [
          {
            "slug": "2026-israel-maintains-ban-on-foreign-press-access-to-gaza",
            "title": "Israel: ban on independent entry of foreign journalists into the Gaza Strip, 2023 to 2026",
            "occurred_on": "2026-01-07",
            "occurred_on_precision": "day",
            "country": "IL",
            "country_name": "Israel",
            "continent": "asia",
            "jurisdiction": "IL",
            "level": "national",
            "tactic_primary": "access_ban",
            "tactics": [
              "access_ban",
              "expulsion_and_visa_denial"
            ],
            "leader_slug": null,
            "leader_name": null,
            "issue_of_the_day": "The war in Gaza, which began in October 2023.",
            "outcome": "sustained",
            "outcome_on": "2026-02-25",
            "outcome_note": "In effect as of CPJ's report of 2026-02-25; the government asked Israel's Supreme Court in January 2026 to keep the ban.",
            "era": "2020s",
            "granularity": "granular",
            "status": "in_effect",
            "case_count": 0,
            "summary": "Since the war in Gaza began in October 2023, the government of Israel has barred foreign journalists from entering the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian territory on the Mediterranean coast between Israel and Egypt, independently; foreign correspondents have entered only on trips escorted by the Israeli military. On January 7, 2026, Al Jazeera reported that the Foreign Press Association, which represents journalists from international news organizations, had condemned the government's decision to keep the ban. The government had told Israel's Supreme Court that the ban should be maintained due to \"security reasons,\" according to Al Jazeera. On February 25, 2026, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported that the ban was still in place.",
            "url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2026-israel-maintains-ban-on-foreign-press-access-to-gaza"
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "country": "TR",
      "country_name": "Türkiye",
      "count": 1,
      "by_year": {
        "2025": [
          {
            "slug": "2025-turkiye-detains-and-deports-journalists-covering-protests",
            "title": "Türkiye: detention, injury and deportation of journalists covering protests, March 2025",
            "occurred_on": "2025-03-19",
            "occurred_on_precision": "day",
            "country": "TR",
            "country_name": "Türkiye",
            "continent": "asia",
            "jurisdiction": "TR",
            "level": "national",
            "tactic_primary": "detention_and_violence",
            "tactics": [
              "detention_and_violence",
              "expulsion_and_visa_denial"
            ],
            "leader_slug": "recep-tayyip-erdogan",
            "leader_name": "Recep Tayyip Erdoğan",
            "issue_of_the_day": "The detention of the mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem İmamoğlu, on March 19, 2025, and the protests that followed.",
            "outcome": "unknown",
            "outcome_on": "2025-04-02",
            "outcome_note": "CPJ's report of 2025-04-02 describes the restrictions as continuing; the outcomes for individual journalists are not recorded.",
            "era": "2020s",
            "granularity": "granular",
            "status": "in_effect",
            "case_count": 0,
            "summary": "After the detention of the mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem İmamoğlu, on March 19, 2025, protests spread in Türkiye, and between March 19 and March 28, 2025, the authorities detained at least 13 journalists, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a non-profit organization in New York. From March 21 to 23, 2025, at least 14 journalists were injured after being beaten or shot with rubber bullets by Istanbul police, and on March 27 police detained the BBC correspondent Mark Lowen and deported him. CPJ said on April 2, 2025 that the authorities \"have since arrested thousands of protesters and have moved aggressively to tamp down media coverage.\"",
            "url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2025-turkiye-detains-and-deports-journalists-covering-protests"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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}