High School Students Protest in Islamabad

While we all debate the merits and de-merits of Martial law regime, abeyance of constitution, and violation of human rights in the name of "emergency", students in the posh sectors of Islamabad (F-10/F-8) were baton charged by the police.

http://thenews.jang.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=80413

The students (most of them between 9-12 grade) were peacefully protesting against the "emergency" in the country. They were not only baton charged by the roit police but 48 of them were put in jail including a 12 year old kid.



The video was compiled using the many footages taken from cellphone cameras. The approximate different segments of the video (seperated by still pictures) are:

1. Students outside McDonald's
2. Students walking on the grassy path, NOT on the road. They were NOT disrupting traffic.
3. They only started removing the tapes from their mouths when the media or policemen came.
4. The students stopped to talk to the police.
5. First police officer, one in light blue clothes said, "Just stop here for a while, let the magistrate come.
6. The magistrate comes in, in white clothes, asking the students to return.
7. They all agree and start walking back singing the national anthem of Pakistan.
8. People traveling by also showed their support to us.
9. Reinforcements starting arriving. Riot police surrounded the students. Many others were on the way.
10. Students agreed to everything, even to being arrested.
11. The boys formed a circle around the girls so that they would be free from the indecencies our police is known to inflict.
12. The policemen stormed them, charged them with batons, hurled abuses and shoved 48 students into police van (Unfortunately we don't have footage of all of that as people were more concerned with saving themselves than filming it. Some media channels were there and they might have it).