This Article is From Jan 28, 2015

Greenpeace Activist Moves High Court Against Her 'Offloading'

Greenpeace Activist Moves High Court Against Her 'Offloading'

Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai shows her passport on which airport officials stamped 'Offload'.

New Delhi: Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai on Tuesday moved Delhi High Court against her offloading from a flight to London at the Delhi airport recently.

Ms Pillai, who was offloaded from the aircraft by immigration officials on January 11, was scheduled to visit London to make a presentation before British MPs regarding alleged human rights violation at Mahan in Madhya Pradesh where a proposed coal mining project was threatening to uproot the lives of the local communities.

Greenpeace in a statement said that the activist has claimed that her being denied permission to travel abroad by government agencies was illegal and a violation of her basic right to personal liberty and freedom of speech.

It was also a "deliberate attempt to malign her reputation", it said.
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