“600-700 policemen, including women officers, anti-terrorist squad commandos and officers in plainclothes descended and told us they would arrest us because a protest rally was not allowed,” a student from Islamabad participating in the protest said.
Rediff and Dawn have reported that on Monday (Nov 12, 2007), Pakistan police arrested scores of school students of classes 9 – 12, the youngest being a
12-year-old, who participated in a silent rally in Islamabad to protest against the emergency imposed by President Pervez Musharraf. With silver and black tape stuck on their mouths and holding placards with slogans like “Justice for justices” and “Free the media”, about 100 students were present at the protest being organized near the upmarket Jinnah Super market in Islamabad.
Police arrested 48 of them, who were later released on bail.
The students later went to the police station and pleaded with police officials to release their classmates. Police released the students but not before obtaining written assurances from them that they would not participate in future rallies.
Image courtesy: Dawn Newspaper Online
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what were these kids thinking? I highly doubt they were doing this on their own WITHOUT any pressure or pushing by their peers or teachers. It’s shameful to arrest these children and its pathetic that the elders are using these kids to get what they want done. sick sick sick
This is definitely heaving the hatred. Conspiracy act 😉
BTW, read it from here as well 🙂
shocking…
brewing hatred or conspiracy. young kids this age should have no business meddling with the authorities in such a sensitive situation in Pakistan. leave that to the student unions in colleges and universities. they should concentrate on their studies.
Thanks for the Dawn link Asma =)
When exactly was this ??? I was in Jinnah Super all day long yesterday.
Tariq it was F-9 park according to Dawn.
Mere propaganda by the media and nothing else. My brother was one of these kids who were protesting on the whims of their school teachers and some ‘friends of the school administration’ and no one actually got arrested. They were simply loaded on to buses and were dropped off in different sectors some right next to their houses even.
from the images these young PROTESTORS look happy and seem to be enjoying the ordeal. hamaray leaders khud to chup kar baithain hain and bachon ko aagay laga diya hai. shame shame