Media censorship: Modi govt forces French journalist to leave India

French journalist Sébastien Farcis, who has been working in India as a South Asia correspondent for the past 13 years, alleged that he was forced to return to France after his journalist permit was denied renewal. He called it an “incomprehensible censorship”.

Sébastien Farcis has been working for Radio France Internationale, Radio France, Libration and the Swiss and Belgian public radios.

“After 13 years working as a correspondent in India, the authorities have denied me a permit to work as a journalist. I have thus been forced to leave the country,” Sébastien Farcis wrote on X.

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