Catherine tried to keep the Jews away from certain economic spheres, even with a ruse of equality; in 1790, she banned Jewish citizens from Moscow's middle class.

I am abandoning any and all proposals to ban honest citizens from owning guns or magazines that hold more than a certain number of cartridges.

It also bans citizens of the United States from adopting children from Russia.

This effectively bans Greek citizens from playing on any online poker sites that are not registered through a state-sponsored firm.

In some countries a license is required to use encryption software, and a few countries ban citizens from encrypting their internet communication.

Remarkably, 10 states still ban such otherwise eligible citizens from voting for life.

North Korea bans citizens from using mobile phones.

But the justice system's frequent response to the problem - banning informed citizens from the jury - is obsolete in our news-saturated society.

In the end French authorities banned foreign citizens from speaking at public meetings.