Mumbai police has registered an FIR against unidentified individuals for sending death and rape threats to journalist Rana Ayyub on Twitter and Instagram, Hindustan Times reported. Ayyub had filed a complaint with the cyber cell of Mumbai police after receiving threats over her tweets criticising Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the Yemen war and her column in the Washington Post which has been critical of the Narendra Modi government.
On January 25, Ayyub had tweeted that she had received more than 26,000 abusive tweets. She claimed that most tweets were from “Indian right-wing” and Saudi nationalists “who are attacking me after I posted a tweet in solidarity with Yemen and calling out the Saudis”.
