Viber Community Want To Continue Sharing Nude Photos And Videos

The Viber community where nude photographs, videos and contact details of young Fijian women were being traded by men, has been shut down.

The group admins left the group last Saturday after Fiji Sun’s exposé of the group was published in the paper.

However, this is not the end of the trade. Before the Viber community was shut, the superadmin and admins of the group were busy deciding which other platform to continue the trade on.

A Fiji Sun reporter was added into the Group and saw first-hand the types of images being traded together with vulgar videos. Many of the videos were taken by the girls themselves and sent to their boyfriends, who then shared it to the Group.

Conversation between the males showed that they were initially not bothered about the Police crackdown, but more interested in how the information was leaked out.

Meanwhile, a woman claimed on social media she was contacted by a man on Facebook, asking for more nude photographs, saying that he already has a few, but wanted new ones of her.

The man who messaged the woman said the photograph he has of her would ruin her life.

Our laws:

Fiji has introduced the Online Safety Act to safeguard young women like this victim from such harassment.

Commissioner of the Online Safety Commission, lawyer Anne Dunn has called on women to report such matters.

Police Commissioner Brigadier-General Sitiveni Qiliho has labelled such acts as disgusting and reminded people that women are not commodities.

Edited by Jonathan Bryce

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