India's Women Politicians Silenced Online By Abuse

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"Jihadi." "B****." "You need a g***b***."  Amnesty International India looks into the horrific abuse Indian women politicians face online by people who disagree with their politics.

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00:00You should be raped in this fashion, you should be killed in this fashion.

00:07Many people have shut down their social media profiles because the threat has reached their

00:15homes.

00:16Sexually explicit content and obscene remarks.

00:22It's not the role of each woman individually to ensure their safety.

00:28Lots and lots and lots of tweets about the colour of my skin and my private parts and

00:53all kinds of ugly abuse combining misogyny with Islamophobia.

01:23It's not the role of each woman individually to ensure their safety.

01:30Lots and lots of tweets about the colour of my skin and my private parts and all kinds

01:37of ugly abuse combining misogyny with Islamophobia.

01:40It's not the role of each woman individually to ensure their safety.

01:45It's not the role of each woman individually to ensure their safety.

01:52It's not the role of each woman individually to ensure their safety.

01:59It's not the role of each woman individually to ensure their safety.

02:06It's not the role of each woman individually to ensure their safety.

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