FB-012 · "Why don't you take some questions from the freest press in the world?"

On 18 May 2026, Norwegian journalist Helle Lyng Svendsen asked why the Prime Minister would not take questions from the freest press in the world. He walked out. She followed him to the elevator. The doors closed. Eighteen days earlier, the RSF 2026 World Press Freedom Index had ranked India 157th out of 180 countries — political sub-score 21.16, category "very serious." Norway ranked 1st. The Bureau documents the twelve-year press conference record, the RSF findings in full, the MEA's Oslo hotel briefing, the coordinated online harassment of Svendsen, and why this is a mechanism, not an incident.