Sanna Irshad Mattoo Pulitzer

2022 - 10 - 19

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Closely tracking Pulitzer Prize winner Sanna Irshad Mattoo's case ... (Hindustan Times)

Mattoo, a Kashmiri journalist, claimed that immigration authorities in Delhi stopped her from travelling to New York to receive her award despite a valid ...

“Freedom of the press is a bedrock of any democracy. Patel’s reference was possibly to the secretary of state Antony Blinken’s remarks at a joint press appearance with external affairs minister S Jaishankar on September 27. Responding to a question about Mattoo’s claim she was stopped from travelling to New York, State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said that the US was aware of the reports.

Closely tracking, says US after India bars Kashmiri journalist Sanna ... (Scroll.in)

Mattoo was stopped on Tuesday from travelling to New York to receive the prestigious Pulitzer Prize.

[Reporters Sans Frontières](https://scroll.in/latest/1023191/indias-rank-on-world-press-freedom-index-falls-eight-places-to-150) in May ranked India at 150th place out of 180 countries in the World Press Freedom Index. We request you to support our award-winning journalism by making a financial contribution towards the Scroll Ground Reporting Fund. “Indian authorities must immediately cease all forms of harassment and intimidation against journalists covering the situation in Kashmir,” it added. [barred from leaving India](https://scroll.in/latest/1035359/kashmiri-journalist-sanna-irshad-mattoo-stopped-from-flying-to-receive-pulitzer-prize-in-new-york) by the immigration authorities at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport late on Tuesday despite having a valid visa and ticket. “We are committed to supporting press freedom,” he told reporters. In a report, the media watchdog cited “violence against journalists, the politically partisan media and the concentration of media ownership” to state that press freedom was in crisis in India. Meanwhile, the Press Club of India said on Thursday that it could not make sense of the government’s decision to stop Mattoo from travelling to the United States. [Aakash Hassan](https://scroll.in/latest/1029129/kashmiri-journalist-aakash-hassan-says-he-has-been-stopped-from-flying-to-sri-lanka), a contributor to The Guardian, was also stopped at the Delhi airport from flying to Sri Lanka a few days later. [Committee to Protect Journalists](https://cpj.org/2022/10/indian-authorities-prevent-pulitzer-winning-kashmiri-journalist-sanna-irshad-mattoo-from-flying-abroad/) urged Indian authorities to let Mattoo travel to the US to attend the awards ceremony. [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-stops-pulitzer-winning-journalist-travelling-us-2022-10-19/) said it has not been offered an official explanation on why she had not been allowed to leave the country. It was the second time in four months that the photographer was stopped from flying out of the country. The United States has said that it is closely tracking the developments after Kashmiri photojournalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo was stopped from travelling to New York to receive the 2022 Pulitzer Prize, PTI reported on Thursday.

Committed to supporting press freedom, U.S. says on Kashmiri ... (The Hindu)

In March, writer Rana Ayyub, who has been deeply critical of the government, was barred from boarding an international flight.

We are aware of the reports of Ms. [writer Rana Ayyub](https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/ed-files-chargesheet-against-journalist-rana-ayyub/article66004972.ece), who has been deeply critical of the government, was barred from boarding an international flight. The U.S. Mattoo had been stopped from travelling to Paris in July for a photography exhibition as a winner of the Serendipity Arles grant 2020. Other journalists who won the prize along with Ms. also said it supported press freedom and that democratic values were the basis of the India-U.S.

India bars Kashmiri journalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo from flying (Aljazeera.com)

Sanna Irshad Mattoo was prevented by Indian authorities from flying to US to receive the prestigious Pulitzer Prize.

In once again preventing her from travelling, the government is yet again displaying its fear of independent journalism,” Murthy said. Tens of thousands of Kashmiris have been killed in Kashmir since the start of a rebellion against Indian rule in 1989. Kashmiri journalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo, who was prevented from flying to the United States by Indian authorities to collect her Pulitzer Prize, told Al Jazeera she is “heartbroken”. “This was a once-in-a-lifetime moment for me to go for receiving the Pulitzer Prize. The South Asian arch-foes govern only parts of the region. The region’s legislature remains suspended and is directly ruled from New Delhi, curtailing the democratic rights of the local population.

Pulitzer Prize Ceremony to Note Absence of Kashmiri Journalist (Voice of America)

Sanna Irshad Mattoo, a Kashmiri photojournalist who shares this year's Feature Photography award with three other Indian journalists for their coverage of the ...

"This decision is arbitrary and excessive. "We believe that journalists should be able to travel freely." "In India, arbitrary travel bans have increasingly become the principal tactic of the authorities to silence independent and critical voices in the country," Amnesty International said in a statement on the same day.

Pulitzer-Winner Photojournalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo Stopped From ... (SheThePeople)

Pulitzer-winner and Kashmiri photojournalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo was stopped from travelling to the United States. Earlier this year, he was stopped from ...

Pulitzer-winner and Kashmiri photojournalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo was stopped from travelling to the United States. [incident](https://twitter.com/mattoosanna/status/1582402752579514368) marked the second time she was “stopped without reason or cause”. She wrote, “I was stopped at immigration at Delhi airport and barred from travelling internationally despite holding a valid US visa and ticket”.