AFP wins three prizes at the Human Rights Press Awards

Iran-based Behrouz Mehri won two prizes in the photojournalism feature category for his images of street children and heroin addicts in the strife-torn southern Pakistani city of Karachi.

A Pulitzer for AFP: Afghan photographer Massoud Hossaini wins award

He won the prize, one of the most prestigious in journalism, for his picture of a girl screaming in the aftermath of a suicide attack in Kabul in December 2011.

06/12/2011 - Kabul, Afghanistan - AFP/Massoud Hossaini

AFP Photographer John Macdougall wins Rückblende Prize

GERMANY, HANOVER : Unidentified relatives of a German soldier killed in Afghanistan comfort each other following a funeral ceremony outside the Evangelische Epiphanias Church during a memorial service in the northern German city of Hanover, June 3, 2011. The three were killed in a bomb attack in Afghanistan on May 28, 2011. AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALL

GERMANY, HANOVER : Unidentified relatives of a German soldier killed in Afghanistan comfort each other following a funeral ceremony outside the Evangelische Epiphanias Church during a memorial service in the northern German city of Hanover, June 3, 2011. The three were killed in a bomb attack in Afghanistan on May 28, 2011. AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALL
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