{"id":486199,"date":"2024-08-11T04:03:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T08:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=486199"},"modified":"2024-08-11T03:23:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T07:23:04","slug":"controversial-boxer-imane-khelif-files-complaint-for-online-abuse","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/controversial-boxer-imane-khelif-files-complaint-for-online-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial boxer Imane Khelif files complaint for online abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who recently won the gold medal in the women\u2019s 66kg category at the Paris Olympics, has filed a legal complaint in France for online harassment. This follows a period of intense scrutiny and controversy surrounding her participation due to a previous gender eligibility issue.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddffBREAKING: BOXER IMANE KHELIF FILES LEGAL COMPLAINT OVER ONLINE HARASSMENT<\/p>\n<p>Imane Khelif, who won gold in the women&#8217;s welterweight category, has filed a formal legal complaint over online harassment amid a heated gender dispute at the Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All that is being said\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pFehDGZABB\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/pFehDGZABB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QdyJiDoqdU\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/QdyJiDoqdU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarioNawfal\/status\/1822397094118019222?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Khelif&#8217;s lawyer, Nabil Boudi, announced that the complaint, filed with Paris prosecutors, concerns &#8220;aggravated online harassment&#8221; and aims to hold accountable those responsible for the &#8220;misogynist, racist, and sexist&#8221; attacks against her. Boudi emphasized that the investigation should not only focus on the direct perpetrators but also on those who contributed to the spread of the online harassment.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the controversy and the harassment, Khelif triumphed in her Olympic final, winning against China&#8217;s Yang Liu by unanimous decision. The harassment that Khelif faced has been described by her lawyer as a significant stain on the Paris Olympics, overshadowing her athletic achievements. Khelif, along with Taiwan\u2019s Lin Yu-ting, had previously been disqualified from last year\u2019s world championships after failing gender eligibility tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who recently won the gold medal in the women\u2019s 66kg category at the Paris Olympics, has filed a legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":486200,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17669,22788],"news_category":[20045],"gn_keywords":[23290,19982,22789],"acf":{"announce":"The Algerian won the Olympic gold in the women's 66kg category","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486201,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486199\/revisions\/486201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486199"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=486199"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=486199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}