The Taliban shoot out a women's demonstration in Kabul

The Taliban pushed and shot into the air this Saturday a demonstration of dozens of women marching through the streets of the Afghan capital, Kabul, shouting "Food, work and freedom."

"We are trapped in a pharmacy, they have locked us up here," lamented one of the participants in a video verified by the DPA news agency.

Some of the protesters would have been injured during the Taliban repression of the march, according to estimates by the NGO Afghan Peace Watch on its Twitter account.

The protest had been called on the occasion of the proximity of the first anniversary of the Taliban reconquest of the country that culminated on August 15, 2021 with the fall of the capital.

Shortly after, the Afghan Association of Independent Journalists (AIJA) confirmed that three foreign journalists and an Afghan worker were briefly detained by the Taliban while covering the protest, while two other local journalists were slightly injured.

Huyatulá Mujadidi, senior official of the NGO, later told DPA that the foreign journalists arrested came from Germany, Denmark and Norway.

At the same time, the Afghan network Tolo News confirmed in its news bulletin that one of its journalists was detained for almost five hours and that the Taliban confiscated his camera.

The Taliban have reiterated that their extremist interpretation of Islamic law contemplates the exercise of discrimination against women, as the Minister for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, Mohammad Jalid Hanafi, has recalled.

"If they think it's right that a man and a woman who don't know each other end up sitting together, if they call this Human and Women's Rights, let them know that our culture, tradition, faith, religion, Allah and his messenger allow us do something like that," he declared in comments also collected by DPA.

Since their return to power, the Taliban have been accused of restricting political freedoms and human rights throughout the country, as well as leading a campaign of oppression and discrimination against minorities and vulnerable populations.

The fundamentalists have responded with violence to all the demonstrations carried out by women's groups since their return to power, such as the one that took place in May to denounce the closure of secondary schools for girls in the Central Asian country.