India revokes Norwegian journalist Helle Lyng's visa hours before Hyderabad flight
The short video features Norwegian journalist Helle Lyng recounting how, minutes before leaving for the airport, the Indian embassy in Norway informed her that her visa for the Bharat Summit in Hyderabad had been cancelled on orders from the Ministry of Home Affairs, despite prior political clearance from the Ministry of External Affairs. She was scheduled to speak on media, press freedom, and democracy at the Congress-led Telangana government event. Lyng explicitly connects the revocation to her May 2026 question to Prime Minister Modi in Oslo — 'why don't you take some questions from the freest press in the world?' — after which he walked away, and to her subsequent criticism of his government. She notes MEA had cleared her but MHA overruled, calls it a 'full circle moment' proving her point on press freedom, and says her door remains open to interview Modi in India if allowed. The segment is built around her personal video and statements with no named government sources or on-camera experts; it uses her footage and a brief additional voice clip suggesting the move aimed to weaken the conference. No graphics or official documents are shown beyond her description.
Source: Al Jazeera English
