{"id":341306,"date":"2025-12-11T08:36:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/341306\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T08:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:36:13","slug":"touched-without-consent-foreign-tourist-cries-harassment-at-post-malone-concert-cops-reach-out-after-seeing-instragram-reel-guwahati-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/341306\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Touched without consent’: Foreign tourist cries harassment at Post Malone concert; cops reach out after seeing Instragram reel | Guwahati News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"'Touched GUWAHATI: A foreign tourist has alleged that she and her female friend were harassed and \u201ctouched without consent\u201d during American rapper Post Malone\u2019s debut concert in Guwahati on Monday. But, despite Guwahati police reaching out to them on social media for details, no response has been received so far.The woman, who described herself as a backpacking travel vlogger across Southeast Asia, posted a video on Instagram from a handle on Tuesday, claiming that she and her friend were targeted in the packed crowd.Guwahati\u2019s joint commissioner of police Ankur Jain on Thursday said, \u201cAfter we saw the Insta reel about the incident in the morning, we immediately sent messages to the two women on their X accounts, asking them for more details about the incident. We have not got any reply yet.\u201dJain said, \u201cThey have alleged harassment at the concert. Let me make it clear that on that day, there were adequate security personnel deployed. Upon examination, we found that not a single complaint has been lodged, and BookMyShow has also not received any. We had planned mechanisms to help women raise complaints, with signs even displayed at ladies\u2019 toilets,\u201d Jain said.He stressed that women\u2019s safety is a top priority. \u201cThe Guwahati police give the highest priority to women\u2019s safety, and there will be no compromise on it,\u201d he added.In her post, she wrote, \u201cDo you think concerts are a safe place for women in India? Last night at the Post Malone concert in Guwahati, things turned serious very quickly. As two women in the crowd … were touched without consent within minutes of entering the packed area,\u201dShe added that within 10 minutes, they had to force their way out and move to the back near vendors because they no longer \u201cfelt safe\u201d. She said, \u201cSadly, because of what happened, we were no longer able to enjoy the concert. This isn\u2019t normal crowd pushing. It\u2019s part of a wider issue of violence against women and the way harassment is minimised in public spaces.\u201d\u201cNo concert, no matter how big, should make women choose between enjoying the music and guarding their bodies,\u201d she added.The tourist, who appears to be from Bangkok as per her social media account, clarified that the incident was not a reflection of Guwahati as a whole. \u201cWe met countless people last night who were lovely, respectful, and excited to share the moment. But it only takes a small number of men acting without respect or consent to ruin an entire experience and create an environment of fear. Women deserve to feel safe. Not just at concerts, but everywhere,\u201d she said.More than 20,000 tickets were sold for Malone\u2019s concert, organised under the Assam govt\u2019s \u2018Policy for Concert Tourism\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GUWAHATI: A foreign tourist has alleged that she and her female friend were harassed and \u201ctouched without consent\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,189575,134,189576,189571,128594,128593,128595,128596,136,188775,189574,128597,189573,189572],"class_list":["post-341306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-concert-safety-measures","tag-entertainment","tag-foreign-tourist-harassment-in-india","tag-guwahati-concert-harassment","tag-guwahati-latest-news","tag-guwahati-news","tag-guwahati-news-live","tag-guwahati-news-today","tag-music","tag-post-malone-concert","tag-post-malone-concert-india","tag-today-news-guwahati","tag-women-rights-in-public-spaces","tag-womens-safety-at-concerts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}