Saana Irshad Mattoo says she was stopped by immigration authorities at New Delhi airport and barred from travelling to New York, where she was scheduled to collect 2022 Pulitzer Prize for her work on coronavirus crisis.
There was no immediate comment by Indian authorities after Sanna Irshad Mattoo said she was stopped at the immigration desk at Delhi airport.
The Pulitzer Prize Board awarded eighteen-year-old Darnella Frazier a "special citation" for a video, showing George Floyd's death beneath the knee of Derek Chauvin, a white Minneapolis policeman.
TRT World speaks to the Kashmiri journalists awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.
Other winners include Reuters, The Courier-Journal, The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, ProPublica, The Seattle Times, The New Yorker and The Associated Press.
Meanwhile, Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin received a special citation honour, becoming the first individual woman to earn such a prize since 1930.
The Pulitzer Prize recognises the best in print and online reporting from across the United States. The Reuters news agency was awarded best photography for its coverage of the Rohingya refugee crisis.
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