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This photo shows an Indonesian woman who received a suspended sentence for stealing logs, not cassava

Published on 22 August 2019 at 10:55

A photo has been shared hundreds of times in multiple posts on Facebook which claim that it shows a court trial in which court attendees paid an elderly Indonesian woman’s fine after she was convicted of stealing cassava. The claim is false; the photo has circulated in media reports since 2015 about the court trial of an elderly Indonesian woman who received a suspended sentence for stealing logs; there is no evidence the cassava case took place.

This video shows an Ahmadiyah mosque being shut down in Indonesia’s Sukabumi district in 2016

Published on 21 August 2019 at 06:05

A video has been viewed tens of thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook and YouTube published in December 2018 which claim it shows a mosque in Morowali district, on Indonesia’s Sulawesi, being shut down. The claim is false; the video has circulated in media reports since July 2016 about the closure of a Ahmadiyah mosque on Java island.

This video shows Koran recitals at an Iranian university, not soldiers reciting the Koran in Russia

Published on 15 August 2019 at 10:30

A video has been viewed millions of times in multiple posts on Facebook and YouTube alongside a claim that soldiers in Russia are reciting the Koran. The claim is false; the video was taken during a graduation ceremony at a university in Tehran, Iran.

This video shows security guards in Sweden pinning a boy down, not an Israeli policeman torturing a Palestinian boy

Published on 15 August 2019 at 07:30Updated on 19 August 2019 at 06:46

A video has been viewed tens of thousands of times in multiple posts on Twitter and Facebook in 2019 which claim it shows footage of a Palestinian boy being tortured to death by an Israeli policeman. The claim is false; the video shows a boy being restrained by private security guards in a Swedish train station in 2015.

This headline about Indonesian singer Rhoma Irama has been digitally altered

Published on 12 August 2019 at 06:40Updated on 12 August 2019 at 06:42

Multiple Facebook posts shared hundreds of times purport to show a screenshot of an article about a popular Indonesian musician, which claims he blamed himself for his son’s drug abuse. But the image in the posts has been doctored from a genuine news report; the original report's headline only stated the musician "accepted" his son was detained for drug use.

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