She came into the spotlight in India in May after questioning Modi during a joint media interaction with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store in Oslo. (Photo credit: Instagram)
In a video posted on X on Wednesday, Svendsen said she received a call from the Indian Embassy in Oslo around 10 minutes before she was due to leave for the airport. The reasons for the reported visa cancellation have not been officially communicated to her, according to her account.
She alleged that she was told she could not travel following directions from the Union ministry of home affairs (MHA). But orders from above in the ministry of home affairs have cancelled my visa,” she said in her X post. “I got a visa to India and was supposed to leave this morning to attend the Bharat Summit in Hyderabad. I had been invited as a panelist and speaker on the future of media and press freedom. Svendsen, who works for Norwegian newspaper Dagsavisen, was scheduled to participate in a discussion on the future of media and press freedom at the Congress-organised summit. She came into the spotlight in India in May after questioning Modi during a joint media interaction with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store in Oslo.