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J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk named in Algerian boxer Imane Khelif’s criminal complaint for aggravated cyber harassment
Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling have been named in a lawsuit filed by the Olympic gold medal boxer from Algeria, Imane Khelif.Khelif won gold at the Paris Olympics in the women’s 66kg (welterweight) event on August 9, but became the subject of what the suit claims were “acts of aggravated cyber harassment”.According to Variety, the suit was filed against the social media company X/Twitter in France last Friday (August 9), citing the “online hate speech” to which Khelif was subjected during her route to the gold medal match.Some of the online posts cited referred to Khelif as a man, despite the fact that she was born a female and does not identify as transgender or intersex.Khelif’s legal representative Nabil Boudi confirmed that Musk and Rowling had been named in the body of the criminal complaint, which has been submitted to the anti-online hatred centre of the Paris Prosecutor’s Office, which has now launched an investigation.Could any picture sum up our new men’s rights movement better? The smirk of a male who’s knows he’s protected by a misogynist sporting establishment enjoying the distress of a woman he’s just punched in the head, and whose life’s ambition he’s just shattered.