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Rana Ayyub

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Washington Post columnist Ayyub has been targeted by multiple online harassment campaigns, resulting in doxxing, rape threats, and death threats. In 2018 and 2022, social media accounts made false claims that she had defended child rapists and that she hates all Indians. In March 2022, on her way to deliver a speech on Indian democracy, she was detained at Mumbai airport and her passport confiscated.