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An anti-Taliban protest has been violently put down in the eastern city of Jalalabad in Afghanistan.

The militants now in control of the country have removed the red, black and green national flag from buildings across Afghanistan. But the crowd in Jalalabad were proudly displaying their country's symbol and were determined to raise it once more in their city's main square.

A civil rights activist, who was an eyewitness to the deadly anti-Taliban demonstration, spoke to Newshour's Rob Young about the resistance to the changes the armed group wants to make.

(Picture shows an Afghan flag at a protest in eastern Afghanistan on 18 August 2021. Credit: Abasin Sarwan/EVN)

Producer: Ellis Palmer