India: UN experts slam online attacks on Indian journo

NEW DELHI, 23 February 2022, (TON): UN rights experts have called for an end to misogynistic and sectarian online attacks against a Muslim Indian woman journalist, asking the authorities to investigate the harassment.

Rana Ayyub, a fierce critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Hindu nationalist ideology of his Bharatiya Janata Party, has been the target of a relentless campaign of online abuse including death and rape threats.

In a statement said “she is the victim of intensifying attacks and threats online by far-right Hindu nationalist groups, the independent rapporteurs, who do not speak for the United Nations but are mandated to report to it.”

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