Reporters Without Orders Ep 201: ‘Bulli Bai’ case, hate crimes against Muslim women

This week, host Akanksha Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Nidhi Suresh, independent journalist Arshi Qureshi, and Alt News senior editor Pooja Chaudhuri.

The discussion surrounds the fake “auction” of Muslim women on an app called “Bulli Bai”.

“They are targeted attacks on Muslim women,” says Arshi. “First, it was only social media trolls and abuse. But now, it’s much more than we can ever imagine...It’s a way of trying to shut up those active Muslim women who speak up against the government.”

Pooja spotlights the incompetence of social media platforms in taking action against issues like these. The panel agrees with Arshi when she says, “This can’t be an act of some young minds sitting in front of their laptops, auctioning women. But this is something really big which is yet to be discovered.”

This, and a lot more as they talk about what made news, what didn’t, and what shouldn’t have.

Tune in.

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Produced and recorded by Jude Weston and Tehreem Roshan, edited by Samrendra K Dash and Tehreem Roshan.