FIRST & FOREMOST ASIAN WEEKLY IN EUROPE ABG Shipyard, its directors booked in £2.28bn bank fraud SEE PAGE - 23
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PANDEMIC There has been a 329 per cent rise in revenge porn offences in London alone, with victims as young as 10. While intimacy and sex are still considered as taboo subjects among Asians in the UK, it is hard for victims in the community to report and overcome the trauma of such crimes without understanding and support.
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Diaspora demands apology for Gujarat riot debate in Westminster Hall A one-sided debate held on 9 February 2022, hosted by a Labour MP at the Westminster Hall on the “20th anniversary of the 2002 Gujarat riots” saw. Neither the groups representing the British Indian community nor the Indian High Commission. Invited or informed. Curiously, since we understand religion was raised, neither were any Hindu organisations informed or invited. Neither were Hindu survivors invited from what we understand.
Shefali Saxena According to data released by the Met Police, the pandemic has fuelled a 329% rise in revenge porn offences in London. The Met Police recorded 1,185 cases of private snaps and videos illegally shared online last year - with victims as young as 10. Revenge porn is the distribution of sexually explicit images or videos of Continued on page 06 individuals without their consent.
Ahead of the anniversary of the Godhra riots (27 February), Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, who is lawmaker Jo Cox’s sister (Jo was murdered in the year 2016) demanded that any unpublished report by Britain into the Gujarat riots must be made public. Continued on page 16
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