Kashmir journo says barred from flying abroad
A Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist from Indian-administered Kashmir says she has been barred from travelling abroad by the Indian authorities who provided no valid reasons for their refusal. Sanna Irshad Mattoo told Al Jazeera she was scheduled to travel to Paris from New Delhi on Saturday for a book launch and photography exhibition as one of the 10 winners of the Serendipity Arles Grant 2020. Mattoo, a resident of Srinagar, won the Pulitzer along with three other members of the Reuters news agency for their photos on the Covid-19 crisis in India. "My flight was scheduled on Saturday afternoon. At the immigration, I was put aside and told to wait for three hours. I kept on asking the officials about the reasons until I missed the flight," the 28-year-old journalist said. Mattoo said she was later told she cannot fly abroad. "But they provided no explanation," she said.
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