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\nA US journalist, who has accused former Union Minister MJ Akbar of raping her 23 years ago, on Saturday slammed his statement where he said that they had a \u201cconsensual relationship\u201d, saying that it wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
In a first person account in \u2018The Washington Post; published on Friday, Pallavi Gogoi, now the Chief Business Editor at National Public Radio, gave a detailed account of how she was allegedly raped by Akbar and narrated her ordeal of working under him when he was the editor of \u2018The Asian Age\u2019 newspaper years ago.Akbar on Friday had said they had a \u201cconsensual relationship\u201d even as his wife accused Gogoi of lying.<\/p>\n
Dismissing Akbar\u2019s statement, Gogoi tweeted: \u201cRather than take responsibility for his abuse of me and his serial predation of other young women who have courageously come forward, Akbar has insisted–just like other infamous serial sexual abusers of women–that the relationship was consensual. It was not.\u201dShe attacked the former minister saying \u201ca relationship that is based on coercion, and abuse of power, is not consensual\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI stand by every word in my published account. I will continue to speak my truth so that other women who have been sexually assaulted by him know it is okay for them to come forward and speak their truth too,\u201d Gogoi said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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