Iranian photojournalist wins World Press Photo award

TEHRAN,Feb.13(MNA) -- An Iranian photojournalist has won the second prize in the Contemporary Issues category of the 2011 World Press Photo of the Year award on Friday. The award went to Ebrahim Noruzi for a collection of images of a hanging in Iran, which was prepared for Jamejamonile, a Persian news website. “Some photos of the collection show Mehdi Faraji, known as ‘the driver of death’, in the gallows. He raped and killed five women,” Noruzi told on Sunday. He said that other photos of the collection pertain to the hanging of the criminals of Khomeinishahr. They invaded a party at a private garden in Khomeinishahr during the night in May 2011, beating eight men and six women there. They then held the men captive and raped the women. The first prize in the category went to Stephanie Sinclair, an American photographer with National Geographic magazine. Her collection includes images of child marriages in Yemen. Images of the drug cartel’s war in Mexico by Pedro Pardo of the Agence France-Presse won the third prize of the category. Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda won the 2011 World Press Photo of the Year award for an image of a veiled woman holding a wounded relative in her arms after a demonstration in Yemen.