We stayed in prison for two months, and then were released on a prisoners exchange. After I got out, I went back to Midhat Basha market and asked the shop owners about the brides incident. One said, “Yes, I remember. They arrested them.” I told him that I was one of the brides. He hugged me and started crying. He said, “Do you know what happened the next day here?” He told me that there was an old man who used to sell children’s toys, displayed on a table. The day after our protest he cleared everything off his table and put up only four dolls dressed as brides. Just four brides.
Context: the speaker and three other women walked through town in white wedding dresses as protest.
