Rules for no-fly lists

Citizens should be informed

Two months after Amnesty International India Chairman Aakar Patel arrived at the airport to discover he was barred from leaving the country, Kashmiri freelance photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Sanna Irshad Mattoo made a similar discovery while boarding a flight to Paris despite holding a valid visa. Mr Patel, who also writes for this newspaper, was fortunate to be informed why he was offloaded — a misinterpreted lookout notice for alleged Foreign Contribution Regulation Act violations by the Central Bureau of Investigation — something that was overturned by a Delhi court. Ms Mattoo did not enjoy this privilege, but deduced