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  • 2021-11-18 (xsd:date)
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  • This video does not show arrest of murder suspect Ou Jinzhong (en)
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  • Social media posts circulating after the death of a Chinese murder suspect who went on the run in October purport to show footage of his arrest. The posts claim Ou Jinzhong was still alive when he was detained, contradicting state media reports that he killed himself during a standoff with police. The claim is false; the video shows a different murder suspect. Netizens in China sent this out, the arrest of Putian killer Ou Jinzhong. He was still alive when he got carried out, reads a Chinese-language tweet posted on October 25. Putian is a city in China's eastern Fujian province. The video, which has been viewed more than 30,000 times, shows a man carried down a hill by four people, one of whom appears to be wearing a police uniform. Screenshot of a tweet sharing the false claim, taken on November 18, 2021 The Putian Security Bureau said in a statement on October 18 that Ou -- accused of stabbing five neighbours in an attack that left two of them dead -- killed himself after going on the run for eight days. Ou's case gripped China and garnered sympathy from many who painted him as a man pushed to the brink by a long-running land dispute with the family, Chinese state-run newspaper Global Times reported . The video purportedly showing Ou's arrest was shared in similar posts on Facebook and Twitter . However, the claim is false. A frame-by-frame analysis of the video shows Xingning written in Chinese on the back of the police officer's uniform. Xingning is a district in Nanning city, the capital of China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. A screenshot, taken on November 16, 2021, of the misleading post with the police's uniform zoomed in by AFP. A reverse image search on Google found a screenshot of the video in a report from October 24 by Chinese newspaper Beijing Youth Daily. The Guangxi man who killed his nephew and cousin was arrested, villagers said people working in the mountain spotted and reported him, the headline reads. On October 24, the wanted murder suspect Li Rongji, who had absconded for nine days and nine nights, was arrested by police in the forest in Wutang township, Xingning district, Nanning city, the report reads. A keyword search on Chinese social network Weibo found a similar photo from the same scene in an October 24 post from the People's Court Daily , which is run by the Chinese Supreme People's Court. The Weibo post also reported the arrest of murder suspect Li Rongji in Xingning district, Nanning city on October 24. Below is a screenshot comparison of the video in the misleading posts (left) and the Weibo photo (right), with similarities highlighted by AFP. Screenshot comparison of the video in the misleading posts (L) and the Weibo photo (R), with similarities highlighted by AFP. AFP found a censored version of the same video published in a report about Li's arrest from October 24 by Chinese news site The Paper. (en)
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