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Radio broadcaster deported from New Delhi
Ref: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/srinagarbound-us-broadcaster-is-deported-from-new-delhi/851079/
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir),New Delhi

United States-based broadcaster and author David Barsamian, known for his trenchant criticism of US foreign policy, was deported on arrival from the Indira Gandhi International Airport early this morning.

Officials said he was deported for allegedly violating the terms of his visa during his last visit. He had published reports on his visit " which needs a journalist"™s visa " while he was on a"tourist visa," they said. This time, too, he had a tourist visa.

Barsamian was scheduled to travel to Srinagar next week, said Khurram Parvez, coordinator of Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP), in connection with the report by a state human rights probe panel on the over 2000 unmarked graves in north Kashmir.

"He had delivered lecturers here in December 2008 and then again came in February earlier this year,"™"™ said Parvez."We were planning to take him to visit the unmarked grave sites. He has done several interviews on Kashmir earlier."

Barsamian is the founder and director of Alternative Radio, an independent weekly audio series based in Boulder, Colorado. He has published a series of interviews that include Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky, The Pen and the Sword: Conversations with Edward Said.

Before his deportation, Barsamian made a phone call to his guru, Delhi-based sitar maestro Pandit Debu Chaudhuri. Barsamian has been learning music from Chaudhuri for the past four decades and has been regularly visiting India.

"I got a call from David at 1 am. All he said was that he is being sent back by the same flight. He had been frisked and I could guess that he was with the police since he sounded scared. He is my student and a great friend and, of course, I am concerned. I could not sleep the whole night," said Chaudhuri.