Dubai: An editor of the Gulf News has been receiving threats reportedly from the Indians after he exposed Islamophobic content being posted by Indians working and living in the UAE and other Gulf countries.
According to National Herald, Mazhar Faroqloqi, the Gulf News Features Editor had written reports exposing Islamophobic social media posts uploaded on the social media by Indian expatriates working in Gulf countries.
The reports had led in some cases to police action and some of the Indian expatriates had been sacked.
Mazhar Farooqui 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.”
