{"id":194400,"date":"2022-07-06T17:12:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T11:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=194400"},"modified":"2022-07-06T17:14:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T11:44:16","slug":"rules-for-no-fly-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rules-for-no-fly-lists\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules for no-fly lists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article \u201cRules for no-fly lists\u201d published in the Business Standard on 6<sup>th<\/sup> July 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus<\/strong>: GS2 &#8211; Govt policies and interventions<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: Fundamental Rights; No-Fly List<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Recently, <strong>Amnesty International India<\/strong>\u00a0Chairman, <strong>Kashmiri freelance photojournalist<\/strong> and <strong>Pulitzer Prize<\/strong> winner\u00a0discovered at the airport that they were barred from <strong>leaving the country<\/strong> despite holding a valid visa.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What were the reasons?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>(1) Amnesty head was barred because there was a lookout notice for alleged Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) violations, which was misinterpreted by the CBI. The order was already overturned by a Delhi court.<\/p>\n<p>(2) Journalist was offloaded because she came from Kashmir. Her Pulitzer Prize\u00a0was for covering the Covid-19 crisis in India.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Earlier Incidents of barring<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>In 2019, a Kashmiri journalist was barred after Article 370 was read down. He had published a book titled\u00a0<em>Kashmir: Rage and Reason<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai was offloaded from a Delhi-London flight without giving a genuine reason.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the issues in such incidents?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>In general, the civil society representatives, who speak truth against the power holder are put to no-fly list<\/p>\n<p>There is a lack of transparency in putting the name of the person in no-fly lists and the implementation of policy.<\/p>\n<p>The Constitution of India protects the right to free speech and movement,<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Way Forward<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The government should inform the citizens who are listed on an international no-fly list. Further, they should also be given a chance to appeal against it.<\/p>\n<p>India can adopt the US model, wherein, the government is required to inform <strong>US citizens<\/strong> and<strong> permanent residents<\/strong> about their listing on the\u00a0international no-fly list, and the reasons behind it. Further, it offers an appeal and redress system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on an article \u201cRules for no-fly lists\u201d published in the Business Standard on 6th July 2022. Syllabus: GS2 &#8211; Govt policies and interventions Relevance: Fundamental Rights; No-Fly List News: Recently, Amnesty International India\u00a0Chairman, Kashmiri freelance photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize winner\u00a0discovered at the airport that they were barred from leaving the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rules-for-no-fly-lists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rules for no-fly lists<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[10503,212],"class_list":["post-194400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","tag-gs-paper-2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700804123,"cached_date":1704762370},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}