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Women in Idlib face online harassment

Many women in Idlib have been subjected to online harassment and blackmail, where their personal data posted on social media have been exploited for financial or moral gain, or for sexual exploitation purposes.
A woman uses her phone to livestream a traditional "hakawati" storyteller performing late after midnight during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, at the historic Dar Halabia Hotel in the Bab Antakya area of the Old City of Aleppo, Syria, April 12, 2022.

Women in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib are facing increasing cyberharassment, as many are subjected to moral and material exploitation.

Abeer Qadour, a 20-year-old woman from Idlib city, had her education and future ruined after being subjected to online harassment by a young man who deliberately harassed her and violated her privacy on social media. 

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