Amsterdam: The Taliban will close the media of Afghanistan and fool the west by promising to let journalists operate freely, said Afghanistan photographer who won the award after escaping from the threat by the group.
Massoud Hossain, who earned Pulitzer’s prize in 2012 while working for Agence France-Presse and now freelance, said the new Afghan ruler has limited female journalists specifically.
The terrible warning of 39 years in the future of media in Afghanistan came when he recovered from the dramatic escape from Kabul on the last commercial flight on the day of the Taliban took power over.
“It will be very, very bad.
They tried to kill the media but they did it slowly,” Hossaini, who currently lives in the Netherlands, told AFP on Friday.
“When the Taliban catches someone, they first catch someone and then kill them, and this now happens to the media in general.” After falling kabul, Taliban officials emphasized that the media, including women, can continue to operate freely and will not be harassed.
The Taliban even held an official press conference where a group spokesman took questions.
But Hossaini – the picture of a girl who dressed green who was crying with horror after a suicide attack also won the second prize in the news category World Press Photo Awards – said the Taliban promises were fake.
“The Taliban will truly close the media, and they will also cut the internet completely and may be North Korea for this region,” Hossaini said at the world press photo exhibition at Amsterdam’s Nieuwe Kerk.
“At present they fool the international community, they fool westerners,” he said, the “Gimmick” press conference branding.
Long Target Militan, Hossashi made his escape from Afghanistan after learning that the Taliban “really hated” a recent story that he and a foreign journalist had discussed the group who made a forced marriage of women and girls to gunmen.
After receiving a threat to social media, the pair ordered a ticket from Kabul, with Hossaini traveling on August 15 because it became clear Taliban approaching.
“When the plane took off as the last commercial plane before Kabul fell, we were crying,” he said.
“I see a lot of friends, even strangers cry, because they feel like me, we can’t go back to Kabul anymore.” Kabul himself has come down to the scene of a nightmare, with a suicide attack outside the airport kabul on Thursday that produces images “even worse” than those who won the Hossazer Pulitzer.
“The pictures of the attack (Thursday) are really terrible.
I have never imagined that many people were killed in a small canal, and the canal was collected by the blood of people,” he said.
Now in exile, Hossaini said he had heard Litani complaints from other journalists who were still in Afghanistan about the situation for the media under the ruler of the new country of Islam.
Where the anchor TV Afghanistan “most famous” to date women, a famous female journalist tells him “The Taliban did not even let me out of my office” and he is now trying to leave, he said.
“What is certain is that no woman can walk on the road, we see that women’s journalists go with a microphone, no it’s impossible,” Hossaini said.
But it might be the biggest damage to the dissolution of the many worlds of Afghan media stated in 20 years since the Taliban was overthrown after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
“That means they have killed us,” Hossaini said, who himself spent most of the first twenty years of his life as a person Refugees in Iran and just returned to Afghanistan after 9/11.
“I really want to go back to Afghanistan, my house is there, my memory is there.
I fell in love with Afghanistan with photography, and fell in love with photography because of Afghanistan, and I did my best.”