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  • 2020-04-23 (xsd:date)
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  • This video shows a rally in Hamburg -- it has circulated online since at least January 2020 (en)
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  • A video has been viewed more than one million times in multiple posts on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok which claim it shows people in Italy chanting Allahu Akbar and seeking help from Allah during the coronavirus pandemic . The claim is false: the video was taken in the German city of Hamburg; it corresponds with reports about a January 2020 protest over the persecution of Uighur Muslims in China. The 22-second clip has appeared on Twitter here on April 7, 2020. It has been viewed more than 3,500 times and retweeted more than 150 times. People can be heard on the video chanting the shahadah , which translates to English as There is no god but God, Muhammad is the Prophet of God, as well as Allahu Akbar, which means God is great. Translated from Indonesian-language to English, the tweet reads: Italy chanted the takbir.. Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Yaa Allah please help us.. The English text superimposed on the clip reads: ITALY PEOPLES STRAT ASKING HELP FROM ALLAH/ YA ALLAH PLEASE HELP US. Below is the screenshot of the misleading post: Screenshot of misleading post Italy first reported the first cases of the novel coronavirus disease of COVID-19, in late January 2020. As of April 22, 2020, COVID-19 has killed more than 24,000 people and infected more than 184,000 others in the country, according to this WHO tally. The video was also shared alongside a similar claim on YouTube here and on Facebook here , where it has been viewed more than 9,400 times. The clip has also garnered more than 1.7 million views after it was posted on TikTok here with a similar claim in English. The claim is false. A Google reverse image followed by subsequent keyword searches found the same video published on YouTube here on January 14, 2020. The video’s German-language title translates to English as: 11.01.2020 Uyghur demo in Hamburg. Below is a screenshot comparison of the clip in the misleading post (L) and the video on YouTube (R): Screenshot comparison between clip in the misleading post (L) and the YouTube video (R) Hamburg-based radio and TV broadcaster NDR published this report about the rally on January 11, 2020. Translated from German to English, the report’s headline reads: Protest against oppression of Uighurs. The article's first two paragraphs read: Around 2,000 people in Hamburg-St.Georg staged a demonstration against the oppression of the Uighur ethnic group in China. According to the police, the rally was peaceful. Intelligence service warns of Islamists The Hamburg Intelligence Service (Office of Protection of the Constitution) had warned on Friday that the demonstration was being organised by Islamists. The banned organisation Hizb-ut-Tahrir, according to the service, is hidden behind the organiser ‘Generation Islam’. It was trying to gain new followers with popular, non-extremist topics, the service said. According to the report, the rally started at Steindamm then moved to Gerhart-Hauptmann-Platz . Other German media, including Suddeutsche Zeitung and Welt , also published reports on the protest. Photos of the rally can also be seen here on Getty Images. Below is a screenshot comparison between scenes in the YouTube video (L) and the corresponding location on Google Street View (R), with similarities circled in red by AFP: Screenshot comparison between scenes in the YouTube video (L) and Google Street View (R) (en)
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