[The Guardian] 'It sticks to me like a disease': Fiji grapples with revenge porn as internet use booms

'It sticks to me like a disease': Fiji grapples with revenge porn as internet use booms

In a small Pacific country, with close-knit communities and conservative attitudes, victims of this crime are punished

Crystal* remembers the day her life came crashing down.

Crystal, 23, a former student at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji, had allowed her partner to take intimate pictures of her in 2014. It was a decision she would come to regret. Two years later, those pictures were published online in a public Dropbox folder, appearing alongside roughly 900 other images of young Fijian women.

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