Kashmiri photojournalist & Pulitzer awardee stopped from flying in another country

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The Kashmir-based photojournalist and documentary photographer Sana Irshad Mattoo has been averted from travelling to Paris via the immigration officers at Delhi airport.

The 28-year-old Pulitzer award winner tweeted that she was once now not given any reason why via the immigration officers for her go back and forth ban and was once instructed that she may now not go back and forth in another country.

I used to be scheduled to go back and forth from Delhi to Paris these days for a e-book release and pictures exhibition as certainly one of 10 award winners of the Serendipity Arles grant 2020. In spite of purchasing a French visa, I used to be stopped on the immigration table at Delhi airport. (1/2) percent.twitter.com/OoEdBBWNw6

— Sanna Irshad Mattoo (@mattoosanna) July 2, 2022

Consistent with a document Mattoo was once on her option to Paris to wait a e-book release and pictures exhibition. 

“I used to be scheduled to go back and forth from Delhi to Paris these days for a e-book release and pictures exhibition as certainly one of 10 award winners of the Serendipity Arles grant 2020. In spite of purchasing a French visa, I used to be stopped on the immigration table at Delhi airport,” she mentioned in her tweet.

“I used to be now not give any reason why however instructed I’d now not be capable of go back and forth the world over,” she added.

A resident of Srinagar, she is a post-graduate in Convergent Journalism from the Central College of Kashmir. Her paintings concentrates on depicting the strain between the seeming ordinariness of lifestyles and the stark symbols of a menacing militarized milieu of Kashmir. Her paintings has been printed in newspapers and magazines world wide and has been screened and exhibited in more than a few exhibitions and gala’s. She at this time contributes to Reuters as a Multimedia Journalist.