"It felt too difficult to do my job in India. I was struggling to get into public events run by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party. The government wouldn't even give me the passes I needed to cover the election; this is done by design. The Narendra Modi government has made me feel so uncomfortable that we decided to leave."
"Farcis had left India three days before announcing that the government refused to renew his work permit, depriving him of all his income without explanation."
"In April, Avani Dias from ABC News faced visa extension denial after publishing a report on the killing of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada, which remains blocked on YouTube in India."
"Three years earlier, in March 2021, Indian authorities made it imperative for foreign correspondents married to Indian citizens to obtain a work permit; Farcis was denied this despite his long tenure."
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