Online harassment of women and girls - including threats of violence, rape and manipulated pornographic images - is a huge problem, not just in India. Photo: Unsplash/Priscilla Du Preez
Police in India are investigating how dozens of Muslim women were offered for sale in fake auctions online without their knowledge, in a case the victims say illustrates growing Islamophobia across the country.
Photos of more than 80 women were reportedly uploaded in recent weeks to GitHub, an open software development platform, under the title Sulli deal of the day . Sulli is derogatory slang for Muslim women.
Hana Mohsin Khan, an airline pilot, was alerted last week by a friend who directed her to a link that led to a gallery of images of women.
Muslim women offered for sale in fake India auction
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