Gulf News editor in Dubai receives threats from BJP’s IT cell and verified accounts

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Features Editor at Gulf News, Dubai, who is accused of reporting on Islamophobic social media posts by Indian nationals in UAE and Gulf countries, is receiving threats from Indian social media users

Published: 23 Apr 2020, 4:29 PM
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An Indian journalist working with Gulf News at Dubai, has been threatened that his passport would be impounded and he would be arrested as and when he returned to India. His crime? He had apparently written reports exposing Islamophobic social media posts by Indian expatriates working in UAE and Gulf countries. The reports had led in some cases to police action and some of the Indian expatriates had been sacked.

Mazhar Farooqui, Features Editor looking after Special Reports, claims he was inundated with abusive and threatening messages forwarded to his mail, on WhatsApp, on Facebook Messenger and on Twitter. He also claimed that while some of the accounts have been deactivated and some tweets deleted, several threats were issued from verified accounts and by people followed by the Indian Prime Minister.

The threats were explicit and some of them read:

· You are being closely watched by security agencies here; your future liberty in India is uncertain. U may have to go to jail if you return here.

· Is ki family kahan rahti hai ? Should be picked up. Passport should be cancelled

· You are on our list too. Along with your daughters.

Messages were also sent to authorities and police in Dubai, asking whether they had carried out a thorough background check on Farooqui, who, they said, was a Shia Muslim from Lucknow and was working secretly for Iran.

Asked to comment, Farooqui told NH, “Well, it’s like a pandemic — I have got nearly 5,000 messages via email, FB messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp from hundreds of such people. . That said, many have deactivated their accounts or deleted their posts fearing action.”

“In the midst of all this, BJP’s IT cell has launched a relentless, malicious campaign against me on Twitter. People with verified account and many followed by the PM are abusing me and threatening to revoke my passport and harm me and my daughters. They have even posted their pix on social media…”.

Farooqui had worked for Hindustan Times in Lucknow before moving to Gulf News in Dubai. Recipient of several awards for his investigative reports, Farooqui finds himself in the crosshair of BJP’s IT Cell, possibly because he had exposed several cases of fraud by Indian businessmen. He had also busted a job racket by an India based agency, which allegedly charged a hefty fees for arranging fake job interviews in the Gulf.

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this man should be punished for his anti india activities .

Actually it is that Indian RSS and BJP are involved in a much bigger nexus. Have been tracking their activity from a very long time. Locating their IT cells and boiler rooms. They have been involved in disrupting govt's in many Muslim countries. GCC backlash over India is just the start it is the tip of iceberg there is much more to come. RSS is more organized than Nazi.

Here are their names. Also have more info on them like their social media profiles. Jobs overseas and their meeting with India officials.

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ha ha ha ........tracking ?
who cares for your tracking ? few tweets from farzi accounts are not going to harm india ,
keep tracking ............

 

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this man should be punished for his anti india activities .

Reporting people who post hate-filled messages is now defined as an "anti-India activity".

Using that logic, spreading hate and posting hate-filled messages is a "pro-India activity"

 

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Reporting people who post hate-filled messages is now defined as an "anti-India activity".

Using that logic, spreading hate and posting hate-filled messages is a "pro-India activity"

yes he is spying for enemies of india , this namak haram must be punished .he should have reported govt of india and indian embassy first .