The Committee to Protect Journalists has called for Indian authorities to conduct a “swift and thorough investigation” into the threats made to Indian journalist Rana Ayyub. This comes after the journalist received multiple rape and death threats on Twitter for a tweet in which she criticised the Saudi Arabia government’s role in the ongoing war in Yemen and her column in the Washington Post criticising the BJP.
Social media users who support the Saudi government and BJP started sending her threats causing her to trend on Twitter on January 25. The journalist even tweeted about how she had received more than 26,000 tweets with threats of violence.
