'We do not have to stay silent': Afghan women vow to protest against Taliban as humanitarian crisis looms

ABC News interviewed one of the women vowing to continue protesting against Taliban rule, as a humanitarian crisis looms in Afghanistan.

Afghan women say they were teargassed and beaten at a protest in Kabul on Saturday, as Taliban rule continues to be met with reported armed resistance in Panjshir and a looming humanitarian crisis. An estimated 100 women gathered outside the building of the Defense Ministry in Afghanistan's capital before it was dispersed, according to one of the demonstrators, and they have vowed to continue protesting despite fearing reprisals. Sudaba Kabiri, 24, a university graduate who has left her employment at an private company since the Taliban took over, told ABC News that they would continue to protest to show "we are part of this society" and resist a return to the darkest days of the 1990s, when the Taliban were last in power. This was not the first women-led protest in Afghanistan this week. On Fridayy, protesters gathered outside the presidential palace in Kabul, carrying placards with slogans such as, "A society in which women are not active is a dead society," after another protest in the city of Herat on Thursday.