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Indian photojournalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo barred from travelling to France

A Kashmiri woman feeds pigeons at a street in Srinagar. (Illustration photo) © Reuters/Danish Siddiqui (File photo/2019)

Indian photojournalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo, winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize, was banned from flying to France on Saturday. She was due to attend the Arles international photography festival which opens on Monday in the south of France.

Photojournalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo was due to take off on Saturday to attend a book launch in Paris and a prize-winning photo exhibition for the Rencontres d'Arles festival, which opens on 4 July. But once at New Delhi airport, security forces prevented her from boarding without explanation.

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