Algeria’s Imane Khelif files harassment case after gender row
Al Jazeera
Olympic boxing champion’s lawyer files complaint against X, condemns ‘speculations fuelled by malicious individuals’.
Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer at the centre of a gender dispute at the Paris Olympic Games, has filed a legal complaint against the social media platform X for harassment.
The gold medal winner’s lawyer said on Saturday that she filed the formal complaint in France. Khelif and another gold medallist, Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, have been at the centre of a high-profile dispute over gender identity that has provoked heated debate on social media.
Citing court documents, the French newspaper Le Monde reported that the boxing champion “filed a complaint against X” with the Paris correctional court, the national centre for combating online harassment.
Khelif’s lawyer Nabil Boudi said the complaint was filed on Friday.
“The boxer Imane Khelif has decided to begin a new fight, a fight for justice, dignity and honour,” he said in a statement as he announced the complaint for “aggravated online harassment … [had been filed] to Paris prosecutors”.
