Protests rocked the streets of Kabul on Tuesday when a large group of women raised slogans against Pakistan. The Taliban fired in the air and also arrested several journalists who were covering the protest.

Days later, photographs have emerged showing two Afghan journalists, who were reporting on the Kabul protests, covered in injuries from being thrashed by the Taliban.

In a tweet, American journalist Marcus Yam shared a photo of the two journalists showing blood clots all over their bodies. Yam wrote, “Painful. Afghan journalists from Nemat Naqdi & Taqi Daryabi display wounds sustained from Taliban torture & beating while in custody after they were arrested for reporting on a women’s rally in Kabul.”

Several Afghan journalists covering the Kabul protests were arrested on Tuesday.

Painful. Afghan journalists from @Etilaatroz, Nemat Naqdi & Taqi Daryabi, display wounds sustained from Taliban torture & beating while in custody after they were arrested for reporting on a women’s rally in #Kabul, #Afghanistan.#JournalismIsNotACrime https://t.co/jt631nRB69 pic.twitter.com/CcIuCy6GVw

— Marcus Yam (@yamphoto) September 8, 2021

Afghanistan’s TOLO news reported that the Taliban detained its cameraperson Wahid Ahmadi and confiscated his camera. The Taliban forces prevented some journalists from filming the protest, it added.

Meanwhile, human rights group Amnesty International said in a post on Twitter that it is “deeply concerned about reports on use of violence against peaceful protestors and journalists in Kabul by the Taliban.

Hundreds of Afghan protesters, including women wearing the hijab, took to the streets of Kabul on Tuesday chanting “death to Pakistan” and denouncing Islamabad’s interference as well as airstrikes by its jets in Panjshir province in support of the Taliban.

In the largest demonstration the Afghan capital has seen since the Taliban seized power last month, activists shouted in support of resistance fighters in the holdout province of Panjshir and chanted against Pakistan, which they view as meddling in Afghanistan’s internal affairs.

The protests in Kabul also saw people chanting slogans in favour of the leader of the National Resistance Front (NRF), Ahmad Masoud, who has been leading opposition to the Taliban from the province of Panjshir.