Avani Dias of the Australian Broadcasting Corp. said her visa was not renewed after she reported on Sikh separatism. India called her claim “not correct” and “misleading.”
An image of Hardeep Singh Nijjar adorns a banner outside the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara Sahib in Surrey, British Columbia, last fall. Last June, Nijjar, a champion of the Khalistan separatist movement, was gunned down in his vehicle while leaving the temple's parking lot. Australian journalist Avani Dias had reported on the movement while in India.
“It felt too difficult to do my job in India,” Dias said in a new episode of her podcast series, “Looking for Modi,” that was released by the ABC on Tuesday. “I was struggling to get into public events run by Modi’s party, the government wouldn’t even give me the passes I need to cover the election, and the ministry left it all so late that we were already packed up and ready to go.
This year, India stripped French journalist Vanessa Dougnac — who had worked in India for 23 years for newspapers including Le Croix and Le Point — of her Overseas Citizen of India card, a permanent residency status that is granted to foreign nationals who are married to Indian citizens or have Indian heritage.
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