The app, which has now been taken down, displayed more than 100 women ‘for sale’; Delhi and Mumbai Police file an FIR in the case The New Year began on a controversial note when photographs of more than 100 Muslim women, including prominent actor Shabana Azami, wife of a sitting judge of Delhi High Court, multiple journalists, activists and politicians, …
Nine hundred individuals and groups, including lawyers, journalists, academicians, activists and students, have endorsed an open letter demanding action against the online targeting of Muslim women. The open letter signatories condemned the repeated and systemic targeting aiming at 'de-humanizing and sexualizing Muslim women'. The signatories criticized the 'openly misogynistic hate speech against minority communities, which 'celebrates a rape culture against …
Photographs of more than 80 Muslim women put up for sale on an app are triggering outrage and calls for action. The creators of the platform offered visitors a chance to claim a “Sulli” – a derogatory term used by right-wing Hindu trolls for Muslim women – calling them “deals of the day”. “GitHub has longstanding policies against content and …
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