Protests take place outside cinemas as Teefa in Trouble premieres this weekend
As latest blockbuster Teefa in Trouble released across the country this weekend, footage of protests against the film began circulating on social media due to the Ali Zafar-Meesha Shafi sexual harassment case.
Today, a group of protesters gathered outside Nueplex Cinema's Rashid Minhas location. The protesters claimed that they were unarmed and left Nueplex the moment security told them to do so, but were stopped right outside the gate.
They further alleged that they were manhandled, beaten, and had their phones taken away and their data deleted.
Narrating the incident to Images, one of the protesters revealed: "We arrived at the protest around 2:30pm. They forced us out of the cinema and when we were exiting, we heard this girl screaming, she was one of ours. Four guards had snatched her phone saying she was recording a video. When we to get her, the Nueplex security forced us down into the basement, they headbutted us with their guns, they pointed a gun at a 17-year-old. There were 20 of them against four of us. They also made us kneel while we waited for the police to come pick us up."
Teefa in Trouble's premiere in Karachi on Thursday night featured some celebrities on the red carpet but outside, a group of protesters gathered and chanted slogans against Ali Zafar, who earlier this year was accused of sexual misconduct by Meesha Shafi.