“Media misreported my ordeal to defame farmers’ movement”: Tikri sexual-harassment survivor
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The survivor said that she intends to continue participating in the protests. She supports the cause of the farmers and “wanted to make this protest more women-friendly so that it encourages active participation.” She told me that she went public regarding the incidents because she wanted the leadership of the protests to address women’s issues. “Women have been sitting at the protest shoulder to shoulder with male counterparts for six months now with no certainty of how long it can go, and not even a basic grievance redressal mechanism in place at any protest site.”
She added, “The patriarchal mindset and misogynistic attitudes towards women exist everywhere, including a progressive space such as this protest; Hence the dire necessity to have such structures in place where women or any person can reach out to seek redressal of their issues.”
The survivor has now sent legal notices to two media outlets, OpIndia and CNN News18, and asked them to “cease and desist from reporting false, unverified and defamatory information … to immediately remove the said news report from all media; to publish an apology and issue a corrigendum clarifying the correct facts in all media including print, digital and social media.” Both the media organisations did not respond to queries.