{"id":23551,"date":"2021-11-23T19:26:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T14:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=23551"},"modified":"2021-11-23T23:33:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T18:33:24","slug":"being-silent-on-harassment-increases-it-says-community-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/23551","title":{"rendered":"Being Silent on harassment increases it, says Social Activists."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn,<\/p>\n<p>PAYS-Pakistani American Youth Society, president Kashif Hussain, and Baza Rohi, a social worker held a press conference in Brooklyn, New York, and said there are black sheep\u2019s in our community who were harassing someone every day. We must not remain silent on these harassment incidents, but we completely social boycott of such individuals.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/vlcsnap-2021-11-23-19h15m35s607.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23554\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/vlcsnap-2021-11-23-19h15m35s607-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/vlcsnap-2021-11-23-19h15m35s607-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/vlcsnap-2021-11-23-19h15m35s607-390x220.png 390w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/vlcsnap-2021-11-23-19h15m35s607.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ahsan Chughtai, Zunaira Ahsan, Saeed Hassan, Raja Razzaq and others from Pakistani-American community also participated in the press conference. The participants said that increase of harassment incidents is worrisome and being silent would encourage such people to attempt again. Everyone in American society has constitutional and legal rights and if anyone faces harassment or threaten, they must use their legal rights. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/vlcsnap-2021-11-23-19h17m18s790.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/vlcsnap-2021-11-23-19h17m18s790-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/vlcsnap-2021-11-23-19h17m18s790-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/vlcsnap-2021-11-23-19h17m18s790-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/vlcsnap-2021-11-23-19h17m18s790-390x220.jpg 390w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/vlcsnap-2021-11-23-19h17m18s790.jpg 848w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Pakistani-American community members said that we have no personal dispute or conflict\u00a0 with anyone, but no one should be allowed to offend or impose their will on freedom of expression.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/vlcsnap-2021-11-23-19h18m23s566.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/vlcsnap-2021-11-23-19h18m23s566-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/vlcsnap-2021-11-23-19h18m23s566-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/vlcsnap-2021-11-23-19h18m23s566-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/vlcsnap-2021-11-23-19h18m23s566-390x220.jpg 390w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/vlcsnap-2021-11-23-19h18m23s566.jpg 848w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn, PAYS-Pakistani American Youth Society, president Kashif Hussain, and Baza Rohi, a social worker held a press conference in Brooklyn, New York, and said there are black sheep\u2019s in our community who were harassing someone every day. We must not remain silent on these harassment incidents, but we completely social boycott of such individuals. Ahsan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1469,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-new-york","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23551"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23584,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23551\/revisions\/23584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}