00:00This is Roshan Bibi, 80 years old, committed a crime of political protest.
00:08She was charged with terrorism.
00:14She was arrested.
00:18A judge, who was married to her, gave her a remand and sent her to jail.
00:24This is what happens to 80 year old women in this country.
00:28In this country, only those are allowed to protest,
00:33whom the government considers worthy of protest,
00:36or who can protest in their opinion.
00:40In the last few days, there has been a lot of talk about women's dignity.
00:44There should be no need for statements on it.
00:48People should be brought up from home.
00:50But our country is unfortunate, that we have to tell the basic facts.
00:55We should respect women.
00:57Mothers and sisters are our partners.
00:59There are examples of this in our politics.
01:01How a daughter was arrested in front of her father.
01:05How a sister was arrested on a moonlit night.
01:09Where is the respect for women?
01:11These people have no morals.
01:14This is true, but now I have realized,
01:17that this respect is only for important and powerful women.
01:23It is everyone's duty to respect them.
01:25If we arrest them, there will be a ruckus in the parliament.
01:28There will be headlines in the newspapers.
01:30There will be a ruckus in the society.
01:32The self-respect of these important and powerful women.
01:36Because what we have seen in the last two years in this country,
01:39is a cause for shame.
01:41How women, like Roshan Bibi,
01:43is a fresh example,
01:45who was arrested on a weekday while protesting.
01:48We have seen before,
01:50how women were misbehaved in their homes.
01:52How they were abused.
01:54I remember the day,
01:56when a police officer pointed a gun at a woman on the street.
01:59But if she is not the daughter or wife of an important person,
02:04then no one says anything.
02:06If this woman was the mother or sister of an important person,
02:11then there would be a lesson in morality in this country.
02:13There are many press conferences on the importance of women and mothers.
02:17Someone would shout at someone and be disrespectful.
02:20He would taunt that if you want to fight, then come and fight with men.
02:23But there is a strange silence in the city.
02:26There is a wonderful silence.
02:28Because she is not our mother or sister.
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