A young Indian woman journalist, who went undercover to expose alleged migration and education scams in Australia, was threatened and punched by an unidentified person outside her office here. The woman, working as a reporter with ABC TV, was trailed near her office over the weekend.
Someone ran behind her and hit her hard, a colleague said. A spokesperson of the ABC Network told PTI that the reporter is now "safe and sound".
However, the official refused to divulge the identity of the woman scribe citing security reasons. The reporter was threatened while making her programme ”Four Corners” related to the alleged scams, the channel said.
The attack on the scribe comes close on the heels of racially motivated assaults on 22 Indian students in diferent Australian cities in over a month. "She was physically assaulted when someone hit her body, quite brutally, from behind and her attacker then ran away," the programme”s Executive Director Mark Bannerman said.
"We immediately reported it to the police and they are treating the incident very seriously. As yet no formal investigation has been launched but they are looking at the matter and taking down all the details," he said.
This just unbeleivable. We should try to stop all this. But thing is how can we do this?
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