1: We welcome the decision of the @DCWDelhi for taking cognizance of the online abuse that Safoora Zargar has been facing with derogatory comments alluding to her marital status, religion, body and pregnancy.
2: Safoora Zargar, a research scholar at @jmiu_official and 3 months pregnant, was arrested on 10 April 2020 by the Delhi police for her alleged involvement in the February Delhi riots and subsequently charged under the #UAPA. Almost one month later, she remains in detention.
3: Earlier this week, her name was trending on Twitter but not with tweets condemning the arrest and detention of a pregnant woman at the time of a pandemic. Instead, people chose to attack Safoora with sexist comments about her marriage and pregnancy.
4: Our 2019 Troll Patrol study on online abuse showed that 1 in 7 tweets that women politicians receive are problematic or abusive. It also found that Muslim women politicians received 94.1% more ethnic or religious slurs than women from other religions.
5: The trolling Safoora received is yet another example of the gendered abuse that women in India face on a daily basis, belittling their political participation and eventually silencing them.
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