Journalists from a Kabul-based media outlet were picked up at a demonstration and taken to a police station in Afghanistan's capital, where they said they were detained for hours, punched, kicked and beaten with batons
Last month, videos obtained and verified by TRT World showed Taliban fighters kicking and whipping anti-Taliban protesters as well as local Afghan journalists in eastern Khost and Kunar provinces.
Babrak Amirzada, a journalist for Pajhwok news agency, at the time told TRT World that he was beaten by Taliban fighters along with his colleague, and his camera was confiscated.
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