Journalist Rana Ayyub Receives Threats Referencing Lawrence Bishnoi and Khalsa Group

Source : https://www.freepressjournal.in/amp/india/cpj-seeks-security-for-journalist-rana-ayyub-her-family-after-threats-referencing-lawrence-bishnoi-khalsa-group

On November 3, journalist and Washington Post columnist Rana Ayyub filed a complaint at Kopar Khairane police station in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, after receiving multiple WhatsApp threat calls and messages on the evening of November 2. The caller allegedly demanded that she write a column on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots glorifying Indira Gandhi’s assassins and threatened to attack her and her father if she refused. Ayyub stated that the caller knew her address and used a WhatsApp profile featuring gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, currently jailed in Gujarat. The calls reportedly originated from a Canadian number claiming links to a “Khalsa group.”