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A photo of a bleeding Afghani activist was falsely shared as a domestic violence victim in Pakistan. Here's the truth of the claim.
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India Today Fact Check
This photo is neither recent nor from Pakistan. It shows Afghani activist Nargis Sadat, who was assaulted by members of the Taliban in Kabul in September 2021.
In Pakistan, violence against women and girls — including rape, murder, acid attacks, domestic violence, and forced and child marriage — is widespread, noted Human Rights Watch's World Report 2023. A recent alleged gangrape of a woman in Islamabad has enraged women's rights activists and has sparked furious protests across the country.
Now, a photo of a bleeding woman is being shared widely on social media, with claims like, "Horrible state of women in Pakistan where a Husband in Lahore attacked her wife with a knife just because he did not like the food she cooked - he slit her cheek open." The archived version of the tweet can be found here.
AFWA found that the woman in the picture is an Afghani women's rights activist who was assaulted by Taliban members during a protest march.
AFWA Probe
Using a reverse image search, we found the photo of the woman with the head injury in several media reports. A report on India.com said the woman was Nargis Saddat, an Afghani women's rights activist and a participant in a protest that took place in Kabul on September 4, 2021. The Taliban prevented the demonstrators from marching towards the presidential palace by resorting to firing shots into the air and beating protestors with rifle butts.
We also came across a report by CBS News that contained the same photo. Its caption read: "An image from a video sent to CBS News by Afghan women's rights activist Nargis Sadat shows her bleeding from her head after Taliban members attacked her during a protest in Kabul in September 2021."
The report noted that Hoda Khamosh, who organised the protests in the capital, said that it was the Taliban's announcement of an all-male interim cabinet that sparked the protests. She also said the Taliban beat one of her colleagues, Nargis Sadat, during one of the demonstrations.
The reverse search also led us to a video of Sadat shot after the protest from which the viral image was extracted. Steve Hanke, a professor of applied economics at the Johns Hopkins University in the US tweeted on September 5, 2021.
In the tweet, he wrote: "Narges Sadat was brutally beaten by the Taliban in Kabul after Saturday’s women’s rights protest was broken up by tear gas & gunfire. Sadat yelled out ‘We’ve given a lot of blood. But we’re not afraid’ as she retreated from the march."
Thus, it’s clear that the viral image is neither recent nor from Pakistan.
(Written by Vikas Bhadauria)
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