Sending love and solidarity to @itsmeeshashafi, Leena Ghani and the women who are being sued by actor Ali Zafar (under a law under law meant to protect women) after they said he had sexually assaulted and harassed them theguardian.com/global-develop… #Pakistan
The law the women have been charged under us the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act which was passed in 2016 partly to protect women from online harassment. “The cyber laws that were enacted in the name of protecting women...now are being misused and weaponised to silence them.”
“It’s rare the cybercrime wing will register cases lodged by women activists,” says @nighatdad. “So I was never expecting that they would be so shameless as to take action against women survivors who are speaking up.” 
“They will not only try and silence victims, but anyone who tries to help victims fight for justice,” says Dad who is Shafie’s lawyer & herself been subjected to a “vicious smear campaign”, w/newspapers making allegations that she is a foreign operative running an “illegal NGO.”
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