The Taliban sprayed the women with water and shot their rifles into the air to disperse the gathering.
Defaced faces of women appear on the windows of hair and beauty salons on the airport road in Kabul, Afghanistan in September 2021.Another protester told said the demonstration started in the Shar-e-Naw area of the capital. She did not want to give her name for fear of reprisals. The protest continued into the early afternoon, when the Taliban arrived to break up the crowd, she said. They used stun guns on the demonstrators.Nobody from the Taliban-run government was immediately available for comment about the protest.The United Nations mission in Afghanistan, known as UNAMA, criticized the Taliban use of force in dispersing the protesters.