Muslim women put up for sale online decry Islamophobia in India arabnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from arabnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Delhi Police Files FIR on Sulli Deals App That Auctioned Photos of Muslim Women
The Delhi Commission for Women had issued a notice to the Delhi Police and sought a detailed action taken report in the matter.
A screenshot from the deleted app.
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New Delhi: A case has been registered by the Cyber Cell of the Delhi Police after it received a complaint about an unidentified group uploading photos of Muslim women on an app, GitHub, and ‘auctioning’ them in a denigrating manner.
The Delhi Commission for Women had issued a notice to the Delhi Police and sought a detailed action taken report in the matter.
‘We Were Targeted For Having A Voice And Being Muslim’: Women Who Were ‘Auctioned’ Online
A now-defunct app called ‘Sulli Deals’ targeted about 90 Indian Muslim women by uploading their photos taken from social media and ‘auctioning’ them online.
Intifada P Basheer 09 July 2021, Last Updated at 11:07 am Twitter Intifada P Basheer 2021-07-09T08:59:30+05:30 ‘We Were Targeted For Having A Voice And Being Muslim’: Women Who Were ‘Auctioned’ Online outlookindia.com 2021-07-09T11:07:12+05:30
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When Khatija’s (name changed) phone wouldn’t stop ringing on the night of July 4, she knew something was amiss. One of her friends had seen a post on Twitter, in which Khatija was being “auctioned”. In the post, a Twitter user had shared a screenshot from a now-defunct app called “Sulli Deals”. The screenshot had Khatija’s Twitter profile picture with text that read, “My Sulli deal of the day i
After Muslim women were put up ‘for auction’, Editors Guild asks NCW to trace accused
Images of hundreds of women were uploaded via an auctioning app called ‘Sulli Deals’ on Sunday. Representative image. | Pixabay
The Editors Guild of India on Wednesday said it was deeply concerned that Muslim women were put up “for auction” online and their images were shared via social media in a denigrating manner.
Images of hundreds of women were uploaded via an auctioning app called “Sulli Deals” on Sunday,
The Quint reported. “Sulli” is a derogatory term used to refer to Muslim women.
The app, which was uploaded on repository hosting service GitHub, has been taken down by the platform after outrage on social media.
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