Thread by @aaluwalibiryani

🧵 on Pakistani state violently suppressing women protestors with manhandling and physical torture:

This young girl protested by throwing her dupatta, the policeman dragged her from her hair to arrest her

This woman was told to leave. When she said peaceful protest was her right, they started dragging her to the police van
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“They have hit directly with a shell”, says a woman protestor.
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A woman was protesting with her toddler, mother and husband. First the police caught her mother and dragged both women and the child, when the husband intervened they took him instead. Absolute madness.
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Meanwhile the Police IG Punjab Usman Anwar defends these brutalities saying that “they will get visas on these basis, they’re coming as ultra-mod (modern)” commenting on their dressings.
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A woman protestor sharing “there were 3 other girls with me, the police dragged us all. Then they were dragging us to the graveyard by force so that they could do whatever they want with us. This is our police”

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Elderly mother of Usman Dar, PTI’s ex SAPM, in her bedroom surrounded by dozens of policeman. When the woman recording this screams “What are you doing?”, one of them comes and closes the curtain.

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Usman Dar’s mother shares that she was asleep in her bedroom around 2:30 am when she woke up from the noise. “I was alone with both of my DILs. One of them was hit with sticks & strangled. The other was tortured. They said even if we kill you, no one will question us.”

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A lady Doctor & her friend were protesting at TeenTalwar in Karachi, for a peaceful protest called by civil society. They were brutally beaten up by the Sindh Police. She keeps saying, “We were just 2, 4 people arent allowed to stand but we were just 2” twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

The man making the video says “this is a woman they have caught”, while she is dragged by the policeman AND people in plain clothes to the police van.
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TW: physical abuse

This doctor on Instagram has shared her personal experience where she was asked to review a woman via a mutual friend who had been arrested while protesting. She noticed deep ‘bite marks’ on her body amongst other signs of physical abuse

Disgusted to the core

This young woman has been arrested by police for protesting. She says “I am from Chitral… I’m a single mother, I have a 7 year old child, I don’t have anyone else.”

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This young woman is being arrested by @ICT_Police who are dragging her by pulling her hair even when she’s not resisting. A policeman says “pick up this kanjar ki bachi (a very derogatory slang in Urdu)”.

See how this policeman throws and pushes women inside the police van when they’re not even resisting. He hits the head of the second one on the police van. They were all just protesting.

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Women who were protesting are being hit by @OfficialDPRPP with sticks. Their crime? Demonstrating their democratic right of protesting.

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Shared by Pakistani journalist @AnasMallick

Women who were protesting peacefully outside Insaf House in Karachi being arrested by Sindh Police that comes under @BBhuttoZardari’s party. He’s part of the crackdown on women for merely standing up for themselves.

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Deputy General Secretary Women Wing PTI @aminah_badar was hit by policeman. She’s hospitalised due to the wounds she sustained.

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Pakistan’s star tennis player @aisamhqureshi shared that his sister in law’s home was raised at 4 am by tye police

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Raid at a PTI political worker Hafiz Zahid’s home in a village in Firozwala, Sheikhupura. This is his wife saying “I’m alone, how can you come inside my room… I’ll record it, you have come in my room without permission in the middle of the night… my kids are asleep”

You can hear women screaming in the end as the police terrorizes them. These were peaceful demonstrators in Lahore.

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Caretaker Info Minister Punjab Amir Mir, brother of renowned journalist @HamidMirPAK, defending the state brutalities against women. When @meherbokhari asks repeatedly how young girls or elderly mother of @UdarOfficial were challenging state’s writ, he resorts to whataboutery. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…