Pulitzer-winning Kashmiri photojournalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo on Tuesday said that she was barred to travel to New York from Delhi airport for the Pulitzer-winning award ceremony 2022.
Mattoo said that she was stopped to fly to the United States by immigration officials at Delhi International airport despite holding a valid visa and ticket.
“I was on my way to receive the Pulitzer award ( @Pulitzerprizes) in New York but I was stopped at immigration at Delhi airport and barred from traveling internationally despite holding a valid US visa and ticket,” Mattoo said in a tweet. visa
It is pertinent to mention that this is the second time she was barred from flying outside India.
In July, Mattoo was stopped by immigration authorities while trying to travel from Delhi to Paris for a photo book release.
She won the Pulitzer Prize in feature photography for the coverage of the coronavirus crisis in India along with Reuters photographers Adnan Abidi, Amit Dave, and the late Danish Siddiqui.
