{"id":199297,"date":"2026-04-30T11:26:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=199297"},"modified":"2026-04-30T11:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:43:11","slug":"kashmiri-journalist-quratulain-faces-communal-abuse-doxxing-over-bengal-voter-list-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/04\/30\/kashmiri-journalist-quratulain-faces-communal-abuse-doxxing-over-bengal-voter-list-report.html","title":{"rendered":"Kashmiri journalist Quratulain faces communal abuse, doxxing over Bengal voter list report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New Delhi: Kashmiri journalist Quratulain Rehbar has been subjected to online abuse, doxxing, and communal slurs after her Nikkei Asia report on West Bengal\u2019s voter list revision exposed the deletion of lakhs of names.<\/p>\n

According to Kashmir Media Service, social media users targeted her identity as a Kashmiri Muslim woman, calling her report \u201cnews jihad\u201d and questioning her credibility. One post wrote, \u201cJapanese media is about to experience news jihad\u2026 Muslims in the media will feed fake news.\u201d Others linked her to the Kashmir dispute, stating, \u201cKashmir shall never be free since it\u2019s an integral part of India.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rehbar, whose work has appeared in Al Jazeera, reported on the Election Commission\u2019s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bengal, which opposition parties say risks disenfranchisement.<\/p>\n

Journalists condemned the attacks. User @_sabahgurmat called the backlash \u201cutterly chilling,\u201d adding, \u201cTargeting of the journalist by highlighting that she is Kashmiri, woman, Muslim, hijabi \u2014 as if that makes her a target.\u201d The abuse reflects the growing intimidation of Kashmiri journalists for reporting on rights issues, observers said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Delhi: Kashmiri journalist Quratulain Rehbar has been subjected to online abuse, doxxing, and communal slurs after her Nikkei Asia report on West Bengal\u2019s voter list revision exposed the deletion of lakhs of names. According to Kashmir Media Service, social media users targeted her identity as a Kashmiri Muslim woman, calling her report \u201cnews jihad\u201d …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t