Kochi: A Norwegian woman tourist has been asked to leave the country after she was found to have participated in an anti-CAA protest here early this week, violating visa norms, a senior official said here on Friday.
“Our enquiry found that she has violated visa norms and so she was asked to go back,” Anoop Krishnan, Officer in the Foreigners Regional Registration Office told PTI.
The FRRO, under the Union Home Ministry, had said that it was probing the matter after it came to know through the social media that the Norwegian woman allegedly participated in the protest against Citizenship Amendment Act on 23 December.
Janne-Mette Johansson said in a Facebook post that she has been directed by the Bureau of Immigration authorities, who again came to her hotel, to leave the country at once.
“I was told to leave the country at once, or legal action would be taken”, she said.
The 71-year-old woman settled in Sweden said when she sought an explanation or something in writing, the authorities informed her that she would not get anything in writing.
She said her friend was arranging a flight ticket to Dubai, from where she would catch a flight back home to Sweden.
“The officer from the Bureau is not leaving me before he can see that I have a flight ticket”, she said.
The woman, here on a tourist visa, had come under the scanner of Bureau of Immigration authorities over her participation in an anti-CAA protest in the city on December 23. Norwegian tourist under immigration authorities scanner in Kochi over suspected participation in anti-CAA stir.
Johansson had reportedly said in a Facebook post that she had participated in the “Peoples Long March” against the CAA.
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When Millions of Muslims and Hindus on the streets protesting against the unconstitutional CAB laws where Muslims are targeted as a religion by the extremist Hindu government and more than 35 mostly Muslims youth have been killed by the police force, their homes and belongings have been destroyed and more than 25000 are in jails, our Hindu Dharam Gurus including Sri Sri Ravi, Morari Bapu, Mahant Swami of BAPS, several spiritual Gurus, Bawas, Saints and Swamis who on daily basis give paid and unpaid lectures around the globe on humanity, brotherhood, Secularism, Pluralisms, and Unity are almost quiet and hiding in their dents. Why? These so called masters of humanity can come out and help to establish peace and brotherhood in India before India burn down in communal hatred. Or they also want Hindu Raj like what Modi and RSS dream?
White skin in a brown country will get you your 15 minutes of fame, particularly in a media with a colonised mindset. Otherwise is this even news?
What can you expect from radical and intolerant Hindu Government run by extremist criminals like Modi, Amit, Yogi.
Try travelling on a tourist visa to the US or any European country and participating in a local agitation. Some of your misconceptions might get removed.
In the same edition of The Print, did you see this “Singapore books Indian national for protesting against Citizenship Amendment Act” ?