Sacked for Facebook post

IN Media Watch Briefs | 10/04/2017

Gulf News reports on April 10 that the Indian employee of an UAE based company has been sacked by his employer for sending an abusive message with sexual overtones to journalist Rana Ayub on social media as well as posting offensive posts against Islam on Facebook. He is from Kerala and will be deported. Ayub has said she is planning to file an FIR against the accused in Delhi. UAE has tough cybercrime laws.

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