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Crime & justice fact checks

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Fact CrescendoCrime & justice

អា​ខ្មៅ​ម្នាក់​នេះ ជា​មនុស្ស​បាតផ្សារ សាហាវ​ព្រៃផ្សៃ ប្រព្រឹត្ត​តែ​អំពើ​ខុស​ច្បាប់​ ដល់​តែ​ច្បាប់​ចាត់ការ វា​បាន​រត់​គេច​ខ្លួន​ទៅ​ពួន​សំងំ​នៅ​ក្រៅ​ប្រទេស​បាន​លួច​លាក់​ធ្វើ​ជា​សង្ឃ​ក្លែង​ក្លាយ ដើរ​បោក​គេ​ឯង ដើម្បី​ជីវិត​រស់​ដែល​ខ្លួន​បាន​រត់​គេច​ចេញ​ពី​សំណាញ់​ច្បាប់។

Publisher’s rating: Explainer

Boatos.orgCrime & justice

Aí está o chefão do tráfico da maré. Mataram ele hoje. Participou da invasão do palácio. Ele e a cambada toda...

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The message alleges that a man killed by police was the “chefão do tráfico da maré” and had taken part in the invasion of the Planalto Palace. Boatos.org investigated this specific image-based narrative, which also linked the alleged trafficker to Lula, Janja and Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. Its conclusion is that the story conflates different people and events, rather than documenting a trafficker’s role in the January 8 attacks. The review says the man killed in the photograph was trafficker PQD, who was associated with Cidade de Deus—not the Complexo da Maré—and died in a confrontation with police in Rio de Janeiro on April 17. It further distinguishes PQD from the man pictured sitting in Alexandre de Moraes’s chair and from the man shown with authorities. The latter was Raull Santiago, a member of the Voz das Comunidades NGO; the person identified as participating in the January 8 protests was Fábio Alexandre de Oliveira, a mechanic from the interior of São Paulo who had been arrested in connection with the acts. The review describes its initial checking as reading the message closely, considering its topic and history of misinformation, and conducting a basic search. It reports that the search exposed the mismatch between the dead man’s location and the claim, then uses the differing identities to rebut the montage’s implied connections. It also says there was no evidence that infiltrators carried out the vandalism, while investigations pointed to Bolsonaro supporters. The supplied excerpt does not detail those investigations, so it does not establish their underlying evidence.

dpaCrime & justice

UN-Bericht fordert Entkriminalisierung sexueller Beziehungen zwischen Erwachsenen und Minderjährigen.

Publisher’s rating: Der Bericht fordert an keiner Stelle, sexuelle Aktivitäten zwischen Erwachsenen und Kindern nicht mehr mit Strafen zu belegen. Eine fehlinterpretierte Textstelle beschreibt, dass einvernehmliche sexuelle Handlungen zwischen Menschen unterhalb eines jeweils national festgelegten Mindestalters nicht automatisch bestraft werden sollten - wenn etwa zwei Jugendliche betroffen sind. Das ist eine international anerkannte Rechtsauffassung.

dpaCrime & justice

De VN en het WEF roepen op tot legaliseren kinderverkrachting en pedofilie

Publisher’s rating: De beweringen in de video zijn een complete misrepresentatie van het document van de ICJ, in samenwerking met de VN. Nergens roept het op tot decriminalisering van verkrachting of pedofilie. Wel stelt het rapport dat jongeren die wettelijk seksueel minderjarig zijn al met wederzijdse toestemming seksueel actief kunnen zijn zonder dat dit automatisch gecriminaliseerd moet worden. Het WEF heeft ook niets met het document te maken.

YouturnCrime & justice

“ஒழுக்கம் எங்க இருந்து வரும்? உங்களுக்கு தெரியுமா? இந்தியாவிலேயே பெண்கள் அதிகமாக சிறையில் இருப்பது தமிழ்நாட்டு சிறைகளில் தான். நாம எவ்ளோ Culture பேசுறோம். நாம எப்படிப்பட்ட பாரம்பரியம் பேசுறோம். இது record. இது புள்ளி விவரம். Crime Record Bureau-லயே இது சாதாரணமா வர்ற விஷயம். அப்போ என்ன சொல்லி குடுத்திருக்கோம் நாம? எல்லா இடத்துலையும் கொண்டு போய் வச்சாச்சு!” – ரங்கராஜ்

Publisher’s rating: Fake

dpaCrime & justice

Een recent VN-rapport roept op tot decriminalisering van alle seksuele activiteit, ook tussen volwassenen en kinderen.

Publisher’s rating: Het rapport roept nergens op tot decriminalisering van seksuele activiteit tussen volwassenen en kinderen. Wel stelt het rapport dat jongeren die wettelijke seksueel minderjarig zijn al met wederzijdse toestemming seksueel actief kunnen zijn zonder dat dit automatisch moet gecriminaliseerd worden.

The claim concerns an alleged call by the United Nations to decriminalize all sexual activity, including sex between adults and children. The review identifies the document behind the claim as a report released on 8 March by the International Committee of Jurists (ICJ), in collaboration with UNAIDS and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. It says the report sets out legal principles for assessing whether criminal laws violate human rights; it does not call for decriminalizing sexual activity between adults and children. The review also notes that the report does not use “child” to refer to people in its discussion of sexual activity, and uses “adult” only in passages about sex work between consenting adults. The source explains how the misleading interpretation arose: a blog article shared on social media had claimed the report called for decriminalizing all sexual activity, and that article was later corrected. The review says the disputed claim appeared in the original article and headline but was subsequently removed. It reports that the ICJ and the UN Secretary-General’s spokesperson responded to the resulting controversy, saying the report was not intended to decriminalize sex with children or abolish the age of consent. The distinction the review draws is between adult-child sexual activity and consensual activity involving adolescents who are below the legal age of consent. It says principle 16 addresses consensual sexual activity, while the report’s discussion of people below the legal age concerns adolescents’ ability to consent, their right to be heard, and whether criminalization is appropriate in particular cases. The review gives the example of two consenting adolescents of roughly the same age and stresses that the report does not discuss children in that context.

dpaCrime & justice

L'ONU recommande de dépénaliser les relations sexuelles avec les mineurs.

Publisher’s rating: Non. Le rapport en question ne prône nulle part la dépénalisation des relations sexuelles entre mineurs et adultes. Il met en lumière le fait que des personnes mineures n'ayant pas encore atteint leur majorité sexuelle devraient avoir le droit d’être sexuellement actives tant que le consentement est mutuel, sans que cela ne soit automatiquement criminalisé.

YouturnCrime & justice

கொல்கத்தா: காலை 10:30 மணியளவில், 200-250 அமைதியான சமூகத்தின் குடிசைவாசிகள் “வெளியே மிகவும் சூடாக இருந்த காரணத்தினால்” QuestMall-க்குள் நுழைந்தனர். பின்னர் அவர்கள் ஃபுட் கோர்ட்டில் உள்ள Armani/Gucci போன்ற கடைகளில் இருந்து இலவச உணவு மற்றும் ஈத் இலவச பரிசுகளைக் கோரினர். காவலரை அடித்துள்ளனர். இது மம்தா பானர்ஜியின் வங்காளமாக மாறிவிட்டது.

Publisher’s rating: Fake