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  • 2021-05-26 (xsd:date)
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  • Photo has circulated since November 2020 in reports about woman attacked in Bangladesh (en)
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  • A photo of a wounded woman has been shared in multiple Facebook and Twitter posts alongside a claim she was assaulted after elections in the Indian state of West Bengal. The claim is false: the photo has circulated in media reports since November 2020 about a woman who was assaulted in Bangladesh. The photo was shared here in a Facebook post on May 5, 2021. Graphic Content Show A screenshot of the misleading Facebook post taken on May 24, 2021 Hide The post’s Hindi-language caption translates to English as: Bengal's honour has been robbed. Is this woman not a daughter of Bengal, only Mamata is a woman there? Shame on those women who are still supporting Mamta despite being women. Mamata refers to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee , whose party, All India Trinamool Congress emerged victorious for the third time in state assembly polls in April. Deadly clashes erupted between supporters of rival political parties around the state after the results were announced on May 2, 2021. The photo was also shared here , here , here and here on Facebook; and here , here , here and here on Twitter; alongside an identical claim. The claim is false. A reverse image search on Google found the photo was shared alongside two other images of the same woman on Twitter here on November 4, 2020. GRAPHIC Show A screenshot of the photos on Twitter Hide The tweet claims the woman was injured during an attack on a Hindu family in the Hathazari locality of Bangladeshi coastal district Chittagong. A further keyword search found the incident reported here on November 5, 2020 by Bangladeshi media. The report used the same photo of the injured woman. Graphic Content Show Screenshot of media report Hide Anamika Das, victim of atrocity by the hands of land-grabbers in Chattogram, reads the headline in Bengali. A couple of men, namely Rubel, Shakil and Arman, allegedly attacked Anukul Master's son and granddaughter - Ratan Nath and Anamika Das - in order to forcibly grab their lands in Aman Bazar of Hat Hazari, Chattogram, on November 1, 2020, the report says. An AFP journalist in Bangladesh found the logo on a chair in the photo is that of a Bangladeshi furniture brand regal. The brand is owned by RFL group . Graphic Content Show Screenshot of photo showing furniture brand's logo Hide The incident was also reported here on the same day by another Bangladeshi media site. (en)
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