From housewives to hijab-clad students, women take centre stage in Indian protests | Malay Mail

Friday, 20 Dec 2019 04:36 PM MYT

As protests in India against a new citizenship law that critics say targets Muslims grow by the day, they have drawn many women and girls – some housewives, some students with hijabs covering their hair, and others in full-length burqa robes – in a rare sign of public anger against the government. “I had to lie to my parents, but I’m still here, because this is important. We need to speak out,” Shabana said at the rally Tuesday. “I was horrified when I saw their injuries.”

In the past, women have played a prominent role in many Indian protests, including those that broke out following the brutal rape of a young woman on a Delhi bus in 2012. One of them was Nadia Khan, a 35-year-old housewife who said: “The government has forced us to come out on the streets.”

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