On June 20, Sébastien Farcis, a French journalist working for Radio France Internationale, Libération, and the Swiss and Belgian public radios, announced on X that India’s government had refused to renew his work permit. He wrote that they had given no explanation for preventing him from practising his profession and “depriving me of all my income.” Farcis had left India three days before.
Three years earlier, in March 2021, Indian authorities made it imperative for foreign correspondents who had the Overseas Citizen of India—OCI—card by virtue of being married to an Indian citizen to obtain a work permit. Farcis was denied such a permit despite having been married to an Indian national and having worked in India for thirteen years.
