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Indian judge faces online abuse, death threats after sentencing 14 men for lynching

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An Indian judge, Tabassum Khan, is facing online abuse and death threats after sentencing 14 men to life imprisonment for the 2022 lynching of Nazir Ahmad.
The attacks, fueled by religious hate, target Khan's Muslim identity rather than her legal reasoning, prompting judicial bodies to rally behind her and provide police protection.

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An Indian judge, Tabassum Khan, is facing online abuse and death threats after sentencing 14 men to life imprisonment for the 2022 lynching of Nazir Ahmad. The attacks, fueled by religious hate, target Khan's Muslim identity rather than her legal reasoning, prompting judicial bodies to rally behind her and provide police protection.

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