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Travel bar on green activist

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published Published on Jan 12, 2015   modified Modified on Jan 12, 2015
-The Telegraph

New Delhi: Indian immigration today stopped a Greenpeace activist from flying to Britain where she intended to tell parliamentarians that a London-registered company's coalmining activities in India were infringing on forest communities' rights.

The environmental organisation said its senior campaigner Priya Pillai, who had a valid business visa to visit Britain, was stopped at Delhi airport and denied permission to board her London flight. Her passport was stamped "offloaded".

Pillai had been invited to address British MPs on January 14 on her allegation that coalmining by Essar Energy was threatening the livelihoods of forest communities in Mahan, Madhya Pradesh.

India's government had last year named Greenpeace, which has also campaigned against India's nuclear power programme and genetically modified crops, among organisations that posed a threat to the country's economic development.

"I am shocked and saddened the government has yet again run roughshod over people working to protect democratic rights in the country," Pillai said in a statement issued by Greenpeace.

Greenpeace said airport authorities had told Pillai she had been banned from leaving India although she had no criminal convictions against her. It said immigration officials told her they were not against her travelling but were just following orders.

"Has working for marginalised people... become an offence in India?" Pillai said.

Last September, the Indian government had refused entry to Greenpeace campaigner Ben Hargreaves, a British national with a valid visa.

"(The government) is trying to intimidate and bully Greenpeace and its employees," Samit Aich, Greenpeace India executive director, said in the statement.

Last year, the Union home ministry had frozen Greenpeace's foreign funds in India. The organisation has challenged the move in Delhi High Court. The next hearing is on January 20.


The Telegraph, 12 January, 2015, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150112/jsp/nation/story_7995.jsp#.VLNviXvxyBE


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