Thread by @ShreyaDU_AISA

I write this from a place of vulnerability and humiliation, the events that transpired today on our bodies are enough to disturb the cool temperament of those who have chosen to sit on the fences against the brutalities of this regime.

Activist from All India Students’ Association (AISA) had decided to take out a protest march in front of Amit Shah’s residence, our demands were simple, they were demands that have been made by those in this country who still have an iota of civil conscience left in their hearts.

We demanded the arrest of the murdered Ashish Mishra for killing farmers in the #LakhimpurKheriMassacre, and the sacking of his father Ajay Mishra who is the Minister of State for Home Affairs in the present Union cabinet.

The protest started at around 1 PM when 15-17 students, unarmed and peaceful, started the protest with placards and posters. There were no women police officers present at the protest site. The male comrades were brutally manhandled and detained into a bus.

One of the women comrades who was with me, Neha Tiwari , was video recording the entire incident when a police personn l snatched her phone. I, along with Neha ( AISA State Sec) , decided that we would refuse to be detained at any cost until and unless we got Neha’s phone back.

Both of us were first taken to opposite sides of the road and were then dragged onto the road for a good 300-400 meters. The women police first proceeded to lift off my kurta in order to shame me, threw me inside the bus and then kicked my private parts repeatedly for 20 minutes.

They did the same thing with neha and repeatedly stomped on her right foot to inflict severe pain. They only stopped when I started crying profusely due to the immense pain i'd started feeling inside my vagina.

The women personnel especially targeted clothes as well as private parts in order to induce shame and pain, this tactic has been followed by the Delhi police in other protests as well. We then asked to be taken to a hospital since both I and comrade Neha were in severe pain,

there was pain in my private parts and swelling in my left arm. Neha was also targeted likewise and she had her feet and legs swollen from being beaten up continuously. We were denied the right to seek urgent medical attention given our injuries and were later threatened with

repercussions if we dared to file an FIR. The targeting of women protestors has become an often used weapon in the toolkit of the Delhi Police, assertive women are especially targeted to show them their place as was quoted by one of the women police personnel before she went onto

target my private parts, ‘we would show you your aukaat.’ We have voice recordings of the entire incident with us if someone would wish to believe us and hear us crying and asking for help.