This video has circulated in reports about an alleged child kidnapping case in India since 2017
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- Published on January 21, 2020 at 10:05
- Updated on March 2, 2020 at 12:45
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- By AFP India
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The video was published here on Facebook on January 14, 2020.
The one-minute 49-second clip was viewed more than 23,000 times and shared more than 1,100 times.
The post’s Hindi-language caption, identical to the text embedded in the video, translates into English as: “Hindu women are being openly victimised in Pakistan. Will the people, who are opposing CAA ,say something on this?”
CAA refers to India’s Citizenship Amendment Act, a law passed on December 11, 2019, which grants citizenship to non-Muslim immigrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. Critics have labeled the law “anti-Muslim”, sparking violent protests nationwide, as reported by AFP here on January 7, 2020.
Below is a screenshot of the misleading post:
The video was also published here, here and here on Facebook, here and here on Twitter and here on YouTube with a similar claim.
The claim is false; the video has circulated in media reports about an alleged child abduction in the west Indian state of Rajasthan in 2017.
A reverse image search on Google using keyframes from the video found this video published on the YouTube channel of Indian Hindi-language newspaper Rajasthan Patrika on September 24, 2017.
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