Taliban Meet Public Protest in Afghanistan With Live Fire and Journalist Beatings

Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=60533"><span class="small">Marc Santora, Jim Huylebroek and Carlotta Gall, The New York Times</span></a>

Wednesday, 18 August 2021 12:48

Excerpt: "The Taliban faced the first street protests on Wednesday against their takeover of Afghanistan, with demonstrations in at least two cities, even as they moved to form a new government."

Taliban fighters patrol in Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021. (photo: Rahmat Gul/AP)

Taliban Meet Public Protest in Afghanistan With Live Fire and Journalist Beatings

By Marc Santora, Jim Huylebroek and Carlotta Gall, The New York Times

18 August 21

he Taliban faced the first street protests on Wednesday against their takeover of Afghanistan, with demonstrations in at least two cities, even as they moved to form a new government.

A public display of dissent in the northeastern city of Jalalabad was met by force. Taliban soldiers fired into the crowd and beat protesters and journalists.

The Taliban had taken control of the city, a commercial hub east of Kabul near the main border crossing with Pakistan, four days earlier without much of a fight after a deal was negotiated with local leaders. This week, the Taliban have been out in large numbers, patrolling the city in pickup trucks seized from the now defunct police force.

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