Expat fired over abusive social media post against Indian journalist

April 10, 2017 23:26

A UAE-based company has sacked an Indian employee for abusing an Indian journalist on social media and for posting offensive posts against Islam on Facebook.

The incident came to light after Rana Ayyub, a well-known investigative journalist based in New Delhi, exposed the vulgar messages on Twitter following which some of her followers reported the matter to the management of the UAE company where the Indian employee worked.

The 31-year-old employee identified as BB, from Kerala, joined Alpha Paint in Dubai, a sister company of National Paints in Sharjah, in 2015.

He worked as a customer service employee.

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