The award-winning Afghan photographer Massoud Hossaini sees the freedom of the press in his home country as a massive threat. He expects a “really bad future” for journalists in Afghanistan, said the Pulitzer Prize winner of the AFP news agency. “The Taliban will try to kill the media, but they will slowly do it.” Hossaini described her commitment to allow journalists to continue their work freely as eyewash. “The Taliban will shut down the media completely, they’ll shut down the Internet completely.” Afghanistan is said to be “probably a kind of North Korea in this region”. Hossaini fled Afghanistan from the Taliban on August 15. He had previously reported on women and girls affected by forced marriages with Taliban fighters. The photographer described the press conference of the radical Islamic militia after the capture of the capital Kabul, at which they also accepted questions from reporters, as a “trick” by the Islamists. The international community is being “fooled” by the Taliban, according to Hossaini.