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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has sought contiguous steps by Indian authorities to warrant the information of writer and Washington Post columnist Rana Ayyub and her family, aft she “received aggregate threats via her telephone from idiosyncratic who knew her location address”.
“The threats of unit made against Rana Ayyub and her begetter from an chartless planetary fig are profoundly concerning,” said CPJ’s India typical Kunal Majumder.
“Authorities indispensable enactment swiftly to place and clasp accountable those liable and guarantee the information of each journalists successful India truthful they tin enactment without fearfulness of intimidation oregon violence,” helium said.
Ms. Ayyub told the CPJ and stated successful a November 3 constabulary ailment that she received aggregate video calls, telephone calls, and messages via WhatsApp implicit a 20-minute play connected November 2, demanding that she constitute a file connected the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, successful which astir 3,000 Sikhs were killed after the assassination of the past Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
“The caller stated Ayyub’s location code and threatened to nonstop radical determination to onslaught her and to termination her father, who lives with her, if she failed to people the article, according to Ayyub and the complaint, which she filed with Kopar Khairane constabulary presumption successful Navi Mumbai, successful Mumbai Metropolitan Area,” said the CPJ statement.
The CPJ said that successful her complaint, Ms. Ayyub mentioned that the illustration representation of the caller matched a photograph of “gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, who is presently lodged successful a Gujarat prison. “CPJ has not been capable to place Bishnoi’s lawyer oregon independently verify the nexus betwixt the caller and Bishnoi,” it said.
Ms. Ayyub said constabulary officers were sent to her residence for extortion pursuing the threats.
“The salient journalist’s idiosyncratic fig was leaked online past twelvemonth and her reporting has antecedently led to online trolling, official intimidation, criminal investigations, and rape and death threats,” noted the CPJ.
