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Algeria’s Imane Khelif files harassment case after gender row

After her Olympic victory, Khelif said winning gold was the perfect response to 'attacks' and 'bullying' and declared: 'I am a woman like any other' [Mohd Rasfan/AFP]

Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer at the centre of a gender dispute at the Paris Olympic Games, has filed a legal complaint against the social media platform X for harassment.

The gold medal winner’s lawyer said on Saturday that she filed the formal complaint in France. Khelif and another gold medallist, Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, have been at the centre of a high-profile dispute over gender identity that has provoked heated debate on social media.

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