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With no government enforcement from the British colonial government aside from a few raids by the Hong Kong Police, the Kowloon Walled City became a haven for crime and drugs. It was only during a 1959 trial for a murder that occurred within the Walled City that the Hong Kong government was ruled to have jurisdiction there. By this time, however, the Walled City was virtually ruled by the organised crime syndicates known as Triads. Beginning in the 1950s, Triad groups such as the 14K and Sun Yee On gained a stranglehold on the Walled City's countless brothels, gambling parlors, and opium dens. The Walled City had become such a haven for criminals that police would venture into it only in large groups.{{cite news|last = Carney|first = John|title = Kowloon Walled City: Life in the City of Darkness|url = http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1191748/kowloon-walled-city-life-city-darkness|access-date = 29 January 2014|newspaper = South China Morning Post|date = 16 March 2013}}

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During the Mozambican War of Independence, the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) set up and defended no-go "liberated zones" in the north of the country.{{Cite book|title = Sure Road? Nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=AdYyAQAAQBAJ|publisher =BRILL |date=December 2019|isbn = 978-90-04-22601-2|first = Eric|last = Morier-Genoud}}

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During the Troubles, the term was applied to urban areas in Northern Ireland where the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and British Army could not operate openly.Gillespie, Gordon. (2009) The A to Z of the Northern Ireland Conflict. Scarecrow Press pp.177-178 Between 1969 and 1972, Irish nationalist/republican neighborhoods in Belfast and Derry were sealed off with barricades by residents. The areas were policed by vigilantes and both Official and Provisional factions of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) operated openly.David McKittrick et al, Lost Lives (Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 2008) p. 176 The most notable no-go area was called Free Derry.{{Cite web |date=2007-06-30 |title=Introduction |url=http://www.museumoffreederry.org/introduction.html |access-date=2022-05-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630143958/http://www.museumoffreederry.org/introduction.html |archive-date=30 June 2007 }}

The areas' existence was a challenge to the authority of the British government. On 31 July 1972, the British Army demolished the barricades and re-established control in Operation Motorman.{{cite news|title=IRA left Derry 'before Operation Motorman'|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-16052382|access-date=11 January 2015|work=BBC News |publisher=BBC|date=6 December 2011}}{{cite web|title=History – Operation Motorman|url=http://www.museumoffreederry.org/history-motorman.html|website=The Museum of Free Derry|access-date=11 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100721104229/http://www.museumoffreederry.org/history-motorman.html|archive-date=21 July 2010}} It was the biggest British military operation since the Suez Crisis.[http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch72.htm Chronology of the Conflict: 1972]. Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Although the areas were no longer barricaded, they remained areas where the British security forces found it difficult to operate and were regularly attacked. As a result, they entered only in armored convoys and in certain circumstances, such as to launch house raids.{{citation|title=Alienation Once Again|author=Steve Bruce|journal=Fortnight|pages=18–19|number=317|date=May 1993| jstor=25554014}} Barricaded no-go areas across several settlements in the region were set up once again by nationalist and republican rioters when violence, supported by republican paramilitaries, erupted after the Drumcree Orange Order parade in July 1997, just days before the second and final Provisional IRA ceasefire.{{Cite news |last=Robinson |first=Carmel |title=RUC lists over 100 injured in disturbances |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ruc-lists-over-100-injured-in-disturbances-1.88831 |access-date=2022-05-09 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en}} The RUC and the British Army were forced to withdraw under fire from several Belfast neighbourhoods.{{Cite web |date=10 July 1997 |title=IRA engages Crown Forces |url=https://republican-news.org/archive/1997/July10/10ira.html |access-date=2022-05-09 |website=republican-news.org |publisher=An Phoblacht}}{{Cite web |date=8 July 1997 |title=United Press International |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=EKRUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fTsNAAAAIBAJ&pg=5340,1766559&dq=catholic-and-ira-rioters&hl=en |access-date=2022-05-09 |website=news.google.com}} Police presence in these areas remained contentious into the 2000s as the main republican political party, Sinn Féin, refused to support the police. In 2007, however, the party voted to support the new Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).{{Cite book |last=Joyce |first=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=69HzWaUM6bkC&dq=%22Police+Board%22+2007+%22Sinn+Fein%22&pg=PA22 |title=Policing: Development and Contemporary Practice |publisher=SAGE |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-4462-4826-3 |pages=21–22 |language=en}} In July 2007, the British Ministry of Defence published Operation Banner: An analysis of military operations in Northern Ireland, which assesses the Army's role in the Northern Ireland conflict; the paper acknowledges that, as late as 2006, there were still "areas of Northern Ireland out of bounds to soldiers".Operation Banner, Chapter II, pg 16.

The Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) were in actuality no-go areas for the Pakistani authorities, where the Pakistani police could not enter. The situation was changed temporarily with the United States invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, when the Pakistani government was supported by U.S. military forces. Currently FATA are no longer a "no-go area" as they have been merged with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.{{cite news|title= KP Assembly approves landmark bill merging Fata with province.|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1410351=|work=Dawn Pakistan|date=27 May 2018|access-date=2018-10-10 }}

The term "no-go area" has a military origin and was first used in the context of the Bush War in Rhodesia.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} The war was fought in the 1960s and 1970s between the army of the predominantly white minority Rhodesian government and black nationalist groups.

The initial military strategy of the government was to seal the borders to prevent assistance to the guerrillas from other countries. However, with the end of Portuguese colonial rule in Angola and Mozambique, this became untenable and the white minority government adopted an alternative strategy ("mobile counter offensive"). This involved defending only key economic areas, transport links ("vital asset ground"), and the white civilian population. The government lost control of the rest of the country to the guerilla forces, but carried out counter-guerilla operations including "free-fire attacks" in the so-called "no-go areas,"{{citation|title=The Rhodesian War: A Military History|first1=Paul L. |last1=Moorcraft | first2=Peter |last2=McLaughlin |publisher=Stackpole Books|edition=2010 reprint | year=2008 | isbn=978-0-8117-0725-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oL-jaeM63P8C&pg=PA38|page=38}} note - first printed in South Africa in 1982 by Sygma Books and Collins Vaal where white civilians were advised not to go.

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In 2013, the Venezuelan government negotiated with large criminal gangs on how to prevent violence and agreed to set up demilitarized areas as "peace zones". The concept behind the zones was to provide gang members with economic resources and construction materials in exchange for the surrender of the gang's weapons, with the understanding that the resources would be used to repair local infrastructure. The Venezuelan government hoped that through this process, gang members would disarm and become law-abiding and productive members of society. In addition, the then-deputy Minister of the Interior reportedly agreed verbally to avoid police patrols within the zones, should the gangs agree to disarm. The plan backfired as the gang members used the money and resources given to them by the government in exchange for their weapons to acquire more powerful weapons and began committing yet more crimes and violence within the zones.{{Cite web|url=http://runrun.es/%20nacional/venezuela-2/212961/10-claves-para-entender-las-zonas-de-paz.html|title=10 claves para entender las Zonas de Paz|date=15 July 2015|website=Runrunes|language=en-US|access-date=2018-07-16}} According to InSight Crime, there are over a dozen mega-gangs in Venezuela, with some having up to 300 members.

In the wake of the 2015 Paris attacks, the Molenbeek municipality in Brussels was described by Brice De Ruyver, a security adviser to Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, as a "no-go zone", where youths drawn to petty crime end up in conflict with police.{{Cite web|title = Visiting Molenbeek - home of two of the gunmen in the Paris attack|url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/paris-terror-attacks-visiting-molenbeek-the-police-no-go-zone-that-was-home-to-two-of-the-gunmen-a6735551.html|newspaper=The Independent|access-date = 2015-11-16|language = en-GB|date = 2015-11-15}} Other academics, commentators, journalists and residents have contested the description of Molenbeek as a no-go zone.Robert Chalmers [http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/molenbeek-belgium-no-go-zone Is Molenbeek really a no-go zone?], GQ Magazine 21 June 2017Hans Vandecandelaere [https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/eu2/ngn/20835708.html Old Molenbeek: A No-Go Zone?] Goethe-Institut Brüssel, September 2016 "Hans Vandecandelaere is a writer and historian. For one of his books, "In Molenbeek" (Epo, 2015), he spent three years interviewing experts along with 200 of Old Molenbeek's residents to present a kaleidoscopic view of this stigmatised suburb."[https://www.vice.com/en/article/residents-of-europes-no-go-areas-talk-about-life-in-the-danger-zone/ Residents of Europe's 'No-Go Areas' Talk About Life in the Danger Zone], Vice, May 22, 2017

Some slum areas (known as favelas) in Brazil, most notably in Rio de Janeiro State, are controlled by gangs with automatic weapons.{{Cite web|url=http://oglobo.globo.com/rio/mat/2010/11/25/a-rota-de-fuga-dos-traficantes-da-vila-cruzeiro-para-complexo-do-alemao-923110808.asp|title=A rota de fuga dos traficantes da Vila Cruzeiro para o Complexo do Alemão|website=O Globo|language=pt-BR|access-date=2016-03-15|date=2010-11-25}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.estadao.com.br/arquivo/cidades/2002/not20020609p17850.htm|title=Repórter foi capturado, torturado e morto por traficantes - Brasil - Estadão|newspaper=Estadão|access-date=2016-03-15}} Police and investigative reporters have been tortured and killed there, such as Tim Lopes in 2002.{{Cite web|url=http://cpj.org/killed/2002/tim-lopes.php|title=Tim Lopes - Journalists Killed - Committee to Protect Journalists|website=cpj.org|access-date=2016-03-15}} Attempts at clearing up such areas have led to security crises in Rio{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/world/americas/29brazil.html|title=Brazilian Forces Claim Victory Over Gangs in Rio Slum|last1=Domit|first1=Myrna|date=2010-11-28|last2=Barrionuevo|first2=Alexei|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-03-15}} as well as in the State of São Paulo.{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4770469.stm|title=More die in fresh Brazil violence|date=2006-05-14|newspaper=BBC|access-date=2016-03-15}} These organized crime organizations are known in Brazil as "Factions" (Facções in Portuguese), the two largest are the PCC (Primeiro Comando da Capital) or "First Command of the Capital" in English from São Paulo, and the Comando Vermelho (CV), "Red Command" in English, a faction from the Rio de Janeiro.{{Cite web|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/08/brazilian-organized-crime-is-all-grown-up/|title=Brazilian organized crime is all grown up|date=8 August 2019 |access-date=2019-12-15}}

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It has been falsely claimed that France has Muslim-only no-go zones that are under sharia law.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-14/debunking-the-muslim-nogo-zone-myth|title=Debunking the Myth of Muslim-Only Zones in Major European Cities|date=2015-01-14|work=Bloomberg.com|access-date=2020-03-18|language=en}}{{Cite news|last=Mackey|first=Robert|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/19/world/europe/fox-news-apologizes-for-false-claims-of-muslim-only-areas-in-england-and-france.html|title=Fox News Apologizes for False Claims of Muslim-Only Areas in England and France|date=2015-01-18|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-03-18|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sharia-law-muslim-no-go-zones/|title=FACT CHECK: Sharia Law Muslim 'No-Go' Zones?|website=Snopes.com|date=12 January 2015 |language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-18}}

An early usage of the term regarding Europe was in a 2002 opinion piece by David Ignatius in The New York Times, where he wrote about France, "Arab gangs regularly vandalize synagogues here, the North African suburbs have become no-go zones at night, and the French continue to shrug their shoulders." Ignatius said the violence resulting in the no-go zone had come about due to inequality and racism directed towards French people of colour.{{Cite news |title=Wake up to the problem: Separate and unequal in France |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/27/opinion/27iht-edignatius_ed3__0.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 27, 2002 |first=David |last=Ignatius}} La Courneuve, a poverty-stricken municipality (commune) in the Paris region whose residents felt the authorities had neglected them due to racism, was described by police as a no-go zone for officers without reinforcements.{{Cite book|title = Urban Sociology: A Global Introduction|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Zn7BAgAAQBAJ|publisher = Cambridge University Press|date = 2013-11-25|isbn = 978-1-107-64941-5|first = Mark|last = Abrahamson|page = 76}}

In 2010, Raphaël Stainville of French newspaper Le Figaro called certain neighborhoods of the southern city Perpignan "veritable lawless zones", saying they had become too dangerous to travel in at night. He added that the same was true in parts of Béziers and Nîmes.{{cite web |title=Insécurité: "C'était intenable, nous sommes partis" (fr) |url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2010/07/31/01016-20100731ARTFIG00004-insecurite-c-etait-intenable-nous-sommes-partis.php |work=Le Figaro |date=August 3, 2010 |first=Raphaël |last=Stainville}} In 2012, {{Interlanguage link|Gilles Demailly|fr|3=Gilles Demailly}}, the mayor of the French city Amiens, in the wake of several riots, called the northern part of his city a lawless zone, where one could no longer order a pizza or call for a doctor. The head of a local association said institutional violence had contributed to the tensions resulting in the no-go zone.{{cite web |title=Amiens-Nord, une "zone de non-droit"? (fr) |url=http://www.europe1.fr/france/amiens-nord-une-zone-de-non-droit-1204941 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120815071415/http://www.europe1.fr/France/Amiens-Nord-une-zone-de-non-droit-1204941/ |archive-date=August 15, 2012 |date=August 15, 2012 |author=Marie-Laure Combes |author2=Aurélien Fleurot |work=Europe1}}{{Verify quote|date=February 2021}} In 2014, Fabrice Balanche, a scholar of the Middle East, labelled the northern city of Roubaix, as well as parts of Marseille, "mini-Islamic states", saying that the authority of the state is completely absent there.{{cite web |title=Des "mini Etats islamiques" en France (fr) |url=http://www.rts.ch/play/tv/le-19h30/video/des-mini-etats-islamiques-en-france?id=6176389 |work=Radio Télévision Suisse |date=September 25, 2014}} In 2005 France's domestic intelligence network, the Renseignements Generaux, identified 150 "no-go zones" around the country where police would not enter without reinforcements. Christopher Dickey, writing in Newsweek, said the situation had arisen due to racism towards immigrants.Christopher Dickey, [http://www.newsweek.com/europes-time-bomb-115189 Europe's Time Bomb], Newsweek, 2005-11-20

In January 2015, after the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris, various American media, including the news cable channels Fox News and CNN, described the existence of no-go zones across Europe and in France in particular.{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jan/13/nigel-farage-ukip-no-go-zones-non-muslim-france-charlie-hebdo |title=Nigel Farage tells Fox News there are no-go zones for non-Muslims in France |newspaper=The Guardian |first1=Rajeev |last1=Syal |date=January 13, 2015 |access-date=January 21, 2015}}{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/01/20/cnn-too-trafficked-in-no-go-zone-chatter/|title=CNN, too, trafficked in 'no-go zone' chatter|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=23 January 2015}} Both networks were criticized for these statements,{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/01/21/cnn-again-hammers-fox-news-over-no-go-zones-with-a-touch-of-hypocrisy/|title=CNN again hammers Fox News over 'no-go zones,' with a touch of hypocrisy|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=23 January 2015}} and anchors on both networks later apologized for the mistaken characterizations.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/01/19/fox-news-retracts-allegation-of-no-go-zones-for-non-muslims/ |title=Fox News retracts allegations of "no-go zones" for non-Muslims in England and France |newspaper=Washington Post |author=Eugene Volokh |date=January 19, 2015 |access-date=January 21, 2015}}{{cite web| author = Brian Stelter | title = Fox News apologizes 4 times for inaccurate comments about Muslims in Europe| url = https://money.cnn.com/2015/01/18/media/fox-apologizes-for-anti-islam-comments/index.html| work =CNN Money |date=January 18, 2015| access-date = January 20, 2015}}{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2015/01/anderson-cooper-apology-no-go-zone-cnn-1201355227/|title=CNN's Anderson Cooper Apologizes On Air For "No-Go Zone" Remarks - Deadline|author=Lisa de Moraes|work=Deadline|access-date=23 January 2015|date=2015-01-22}}{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/01/22/cnns-anderson-cooper-acknowledges-mistake-on-no-go-zones/|title=CNN's Anderson Cooper acknowledges mistake on 'no-go zones'|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=23 January 2015}} The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, said that she intended to sue Fox News for its statements.{{citation|title=Paris mayor: We intend to sue Fox News|author1=Gregory Wallace |author2=Brian Stelter| publisher = CNN Money|date=January 20, 2015|url=https://money.cnn.com/2015/01/20/media/paris-mayor-sue-fox-news/index.html}} After complaints Fox News issued an apology, saying that there was "no credible information to support the assertion there are specific areas in these countries that exclude individuals based solely on their religion."{{cite web|url=http://video.foxnews.com/v/3995699587001/fox-news-apologizes-for-european-muslim-population-errors/?#sp=show-clips|title=Fox News apologizes for European Muslim population errors|work=Fox News|access-date=15 April 2015}}{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jan/18/fox-news-apologises-terror-pundit-birmingham-muslim-comments|title=Fox News apologises for terror pundit's 'Birmingham totally Muslim' comments|work=the Guardian|date=18 January 2015 |access-date=15 April 2015}}{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/01/18/fox-news-corrects-apologizes-for-no-go-zone-remarks/|title=Fox News corrects, apologizes for 'no-go zone' remarks|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=15 April 2015}} Berkshire Eagle columnist Donald Morrison, writing in The New Republic in the wake of the shooting, wrote that "the word banlieue ("suburb") now connotes a no-go zone of high-rise slums, drug-fueled crime, failing schools and poor, largely Muslim immigrants and their angry offspring" and that France has not succeeded in integrating minorities into national life.Donald Morrison, [https://newrepublic.com/article/120714/charlie-hebdo-attack-challenges-frances-treasured-national-identity What Does It Mean to Be French? The 'Charlie Hebdo' Massacre Complicates the Answer], The New Republic, 2015-01-08

A sociology paper published in 2009 said that right-wing extremists had been discussing the creation of no-go areas in Western Europe since the 1980s.{{citation|title=Right-wing Extremism and No-go-areas in Germany | first=Lukáš |last=Novotný|journal=Czech Sociological Review|volume=45 | pages=591–609 |number=3 |date=June 2009| doi=10.13060/00380288.2009.45.3.05 |jstor=41132745|doi-access=free }} It described attempts to create "national liberated zones" (national befreite Zonen) in Germany: "'no-go-areas', which are areas dominated by neo-Nazis,"Novotny p. 591 attributing their appeal in the former DDR to "the unmet promises of modernisation and the poor socio-cultural conditions that offer no perspectives to young people".Novotny p.596 Whether or not Germany actually had no-go zones was disputed: the paper concluded "according to ... state officials, the police and other relevant institutions, [the phenomenon of no-go zones] does not actually exist ... by contrast, the national press in Germany, various civic associations, and also experts acknowledge and give examples of the existence of no-go areas."Novotny p.605

In a February 2018 interview, German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated that there are no-go areas in Germany, saying, "There are such areas and one has to call them by their name and do something about them."{{cite news|title=Merkel says Germany has 'no-go areas'; gov't won't say where|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/merkel-says-germany-has-no-go-areas-govt-wont-say-where/2018/02/28/00993bd0-1ca9-11e8-98f5-ceecfa8741b6_story.html|access-date=2 March 2018|newspaper=The Washington Post|agency=The Associated Press|date=28 February 2018|quote=The notion there are places in Germany outsiders — including police — can't visit has previously been dismissed by officials.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180228205429/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/merkel-says-germany-has-no-go-areas-govt-wont-say-where/2018/02/28/00993bd0-1ca9-11e8-98f5-ceecfa8741b6_story.html|archive-date=2018-02-28}} This came in the context of arguing for a zero-tolerance policy in German policing.{{Cite news|url=https://www.presseportal.de/pm/7847/3877548|title=RTL Aktuell heute, 18:45 Uhr: Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel im Interview: "Ich hoffe, dass auch viele SPD-Mitglieder die Verantwortung verspüren, dass Deutschland eine gute Regierung braucht"|work=presseportal.de|access-date=2018-02-28|language=de}}

A 2023 article about Berlin defined "no-go zones for Jews" as "city areas Jews should avoid to reduce the likelihood of being attacked... inner-city districts in which Jews are recommended not to identify as Jews".{{cite journal |last1=von Sikorski |first1=Christian |last2=Merz |first2=Pascal |title=No-go zone for Jews? Examining how news on anti-Semitic attacks increases victim blaming |journal=Communications |date=18 February 2023 |volume=48 |issue=4 |pages=539–550 |doi=10.1515/commun-2021-0145 |s2cid=256901910 |language=en |issn=1613-4087|doi-access=free }} In 2024, The Telegraph reported that Barbara Slowik, Berlin Chief of Police, said that visibly Jewish and gay people should "be more careful." In the same interview, Slowik said that violent crimes against Jewish people were "few and far between."{{Cite news |last=Luyken |first=Jörg |date=2024-11-18 |title=Jews and gay people should hide identity in 'Arab neighbourhoods', says Berlin police chief |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/11/18/jews-gay-people-hide-identity-arab-areas-germany/ |access-date=2024-12-19 |work=The Telegraph |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Berlin Police chief warns Jews, gay people to 'be careful' in Arab neighborhoods |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/berlin-police-chief-warns-jews-gay-people-to-be-careful-in-arab-neighborhoods/ |access-date=2024-12-19 |website=www.timesofisrael.com |language=en-US}} The New Arab reported that Slowik had been criticized for mis-categorizing crimes as anti-semitic when the victims were not Jewish but where the circumstances of the crime involved criticism of Israel and said that German police regularly ignored complaints of Islamophobic violence despite a 113% increase in such crimes in 2023.{{cite journal |last1=Alam |first1=Anam |title=Berlin police chief sparks outrage over anti-Arab 'safety advice' for Jews, LGBTQ+ people |journal=The New Arab |date=20 November 2024 |language=en |url=https://www.newarab.com/news/berlin-police-chief-sparks-outrage-over-safety-advice-jews}}

In Kenya, the ongoing conflict in Somalia, where the terrorist organization al-Shabaab controls territory, has severely affected the security situation even on the Kenyan side of the border. There have been terrorist attacks and kidnappings in Kenya followed by a Kenyan intervention, Operation Linda Nchi, and police crackdowns. These have affected counties bordering Somalia and in Nairobi, the suburb of Eastleigh, which is inhabited mostly by Somalis. By 2004, Eastleigh was described as a no-go zone for Kenyan authorities after dark.{{Cite journal |last=Menkhaus |first=Ken |date=2004-04-01 |title=Introduction |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/714027945 |journal=The Adelphi Papers |volume=44 |issue=364 |pages=7–13 |doi=10.1080/714027945 |issn=0567-932X}}

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The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) maintains a border zone on the Gaza strip and declares "no-go zones", where they may use lethal force to enforce the security exclusion zone. An IDF spokesman said that "residents of the Gaza Strip are required not to come any closer than 300 meters from the security fence", although there is some allowance for farmers to approach up to 100 meters if they do so on foot only.{{cite web|url=http://gisha.org/legal/4577|title=Gisha - IDF spokesman provides contradictory answers regarding the width of the "no-go zone" which residents of the Gaza Strip are prohibited from entering|website=gisha.org|date=11 August 2015|access-date=7 December 2017|archive-date=2 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151002014109/http://gisha.org/legal/4577|url-status=dead}} The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that the no-go zones include about 30% of the arable land in the Gaza strip, and a small number of residents farm in the exclusion zones despite the risk of military action.{{Cite journal |doi=10.1080/13604813.2017.1331566|title = Farming the front line|journal = City|volume = 21|issue = 3–4|pages = 448–465|year = 2017|last1 = Smith|first1 = Ron J.|last2 = Isleem|first2 = Martin| bibcode=2017City...21..448S |s2cid = 149231524}} (subscription required for access to full article) Unlike a legal border zone, the no-go zone is declared unilaterally in occupied territory, without acknowledgement or cooperation of Palestinian authorities, and as such can be considered a disputed no-go zone. It is considered unlawful by the Swedish organization Diakonia.{{cite web|url=https://www.diakonia.se/en/IHL/where-we-work/Occupied-Palestinian-Territory/Administration-of-Occupation/Gaza-Blockade-Land--Sea/Land-Buffer-Zone/|title=The Legality of the Land "Buffer Zone" in the Gaza Strip - Diakonia|website=diakonia.se}}

The term "no-go zone" has been informally applied to high-crime neighborhoods in South African cities. In South Africa, the apartheid policy created segregated neighborhoods where whites risked being removed or victimized in black-only neighborhoods and vice versa. Because of the bantustan system, many urban inhabitants lived in the city illegally per apartheid laws. For example, in Cape Town, Cape Flats was a neighborhood where many of those evicted were relocated. It became a "no-go area", as it was controlled by criminal gangs.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WmQMDgAAQBAJ&q=%22cape+flats%22+%22no-go%22&pg=PT192|title=Fear and Loathing on the Oche: A Gonzo Journey Through the World of Championship Darts (Shortlisted for the 2018 William Hill Sports Book of the Year)|first=King|last=ADZ|date=2 November 2017|publisher=Random House|via=Google Books|isbn=978-1-4735-4907-4}} However, many of these areas have seen significant gentrification; for example, Woodstock in Cape Town can no longer be described as a no-go zone.{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/christopher-clark/4-ways-to-see-the-real-cape-town_b_8031918.html|title=4 Ways to See the 'Real' Cape Town: An Expat's Guide|website=HuffPost|date=2015-08-25}} In 2010, a housing complex comprising a number of city blocks in Atlantis, Western Cape were described as a "no-go zone for police conducting raids",Buthelezi, M.W. Gang violence in the Western Cape. Research Unit, Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, 08 August 2012. http://pmg-assets.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/docs/120821%20gang_0.pdf{{cite web|url=https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/atlantis-cops-not-just-fighting-criminals-485637|title=Atlantis cops not just fighting criminals - IOL News}} and ambulances could not enter without police escort. In 2014, the situation had improved, and following convictions of several gang members, a police official said that "legislation concerning organised crime was beginning to work".{{cite web|url=https://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/news/convictions-shatter-atlantis-gangland-1647994|title=Convictions 'shatter' Atlantis gangland |newspaper=Cape Times}} In 2018, a gang war in Parkwood, Cape Town was reported to have turned the area into a "no-go zone", although a minister visited the area to ensure policing continues.{{cite web|url=https://www.dailyvoice.co.za/news/police-minister-walks-gangland-streets-14328597|title=Police minister walks gangland streets - The Daily Voice|newspaper=The Daily Voice|access-date=2018-08-19|archive-date=2018-08-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820010310/https://www.dailyvoice.co.za/news/police-minister-walks-gangland-streets-14328597|url-status=dead}}

Some conservative American political figures, including Tony Perkins and Jim Newberger, have falsely claimed that some communities within the United States are either governed by Sharia law{{Cite web|url=https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/aug/16/roy-moore/alabamas-roy-moore-says-whole-communities-midwest-/|title=Alabama's Roy Moore says whole communities in Midwest are under Sharia law|website=PolitiFact|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-15}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sharia-law-texas/|title=FACT CHECK: Was Sharia Law Established in Texas?|website=Snopes.com|date=27 January 2015 |language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-18}} or are Muslim-controlled no-go zones.{{Cite web|url=http://www.citypages.com/news/gop-candidate-jim-newberger-ready-to-protect-minnesota-from-muslim-control/488141051|title=GOP senate candidate Jim Newberger ready to protect Minnesota from Muslim control|last=Jones|first=Hannah|website=City Pages|access-date=2020-03-18}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.wxyz.com/news/dutch-reporter-catches-ex-michigan-congressman-lying-about-no-go-zones|title=Hoesktra accused of pushing 'fake news'|date=2017-12-22|website=WXYZ|language=en|access-date=2020-03-18}}

Some occupation protests in the U.S. connected with the George Floyd protests have been described as exclusionary zones. In Seattle in June 2020, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone was established as a "No Cop Co-op."[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/us/seattle-autonomous-zone.html Free Food, Free Speech and Free of Police: Inside Seattle's 'Autonomous Zone'], The New York Times In Minneapolis, the George Floyd Square occupied protest persisted for over a year, until June 20, 2021, and was described as "a police free zone."{{Cite news|last1=Arango|first1=Tim|last2=Furber|first2=Matt|date=2020-07-29|title=Where George Floyd Was Killed: Solemn by Day, Violent by Night|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/us/george-floyd-memorial.html|access-date=2021-05-26|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web|last=Hill|first=Crystal|date=May 20, 2021|title=George Floyd Square has become a living memorial with an uncertain future|url=https://news.yahoo.com/george-floyd-square-has-become-a-living-memorial-with-an-uncertain-future-214021492.html|access-date=2021-05-26|website=news.yahoo.com|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|date=2021-06-20|title=George Floyd Square And Minneapolis Uptown Intersection At Center Of Protests Reopen To Traffic|url=https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2021/06/20/george-floyd-square-and-minneapolis-uptown-intersection-at-center-of-protests-reopen-to-traffic/|access-date=2021-08-25|language=en-US}}

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• Alsatia
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• Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
• Closed city
• Demilitarized zone
• Exclusionary zoning
• Fukushima exclusion zone
• Geographical segregation
• Ghetto
• Vulnerable residential area (Denmark) ({{langx|da|Udsat boligområde}})
• Hot zone (environment)
• LGBT-free zone
• Lazaretto
• No man's land
• Pirate republic
• Red-light district
• Sanctuary
• Sundown town
• Vulnerable area ({{langx|sv|Utsatt område}})
• Zone interdite, two distinct territories established in German-occupied France during World War II

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