New Delhi, Dec. 25 -- Mainstream Press Silenced Zarutska Story, Foreign Media Exposed Their Hypocrisy

Powerful murals depicting Iryna Zarutska have appeared across New York and Washington this week, bringing renewed attention to a tragedy that mainstream media largely ignored when it first occurred. The 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee, who fled her war-torn homeland seeking safety in America, was brutally stabbed to death on a Charlotte light rail train on August 22, exposing the selective amnesia of outlets that claim to champion refugee rights and women's safety.

Street artists Anthony Scotto and Ben Keller have created striking portraits of Zarutska in Queens, Brooklyn, and Washington D.C.'s Sursum Corda neighborhood, commissioned by t...