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Crime & justice fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about crime & justice. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

6,836 published reviews in this topic

LupaCrime & justice

“Augusto Aras aceitou na manhã desta manhã desta quinta-feira [30 de março de 2023] o pedido de prisão de Alexandre de Moraes, do FBI. O chefe da agência norte-americana, Cristopher Wray, pressionou o procurador-geral para que aceitasse a ordem da maior agência de investigação do mundo, para que Moraes fosse entregue à Polícia Federal, com a finalidade de ser extraditado para os Estados Unidos, para que responda pelos crimes de corrupção, por ter aceitado propinas para soltar chefe de cartel mexicano”

Publisher’s rating: Falso

El Detector / Univision NoticiasCrime & justice

"Donald Trump fue arrestado luego de entregarse en la corte de Manhattan. Fue esposado".

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim concerned Donald Trump’s appearance at a Manhattan court on April 4, 2023. It said he was arrested after turning himself in, handcuffed, and read his charges. El Detector’s review distinguishes the technical processing of an arrest from the familiar image of a suspect being restrained and jailed. It reports that Trump appeared voluntarily, was not handcuffed, and was released after the court proceeding.

FACTLYCrime & justice

Video of a group of upper caste people making a Dalit person drink water from their shoes.

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

FACTLY examined a social-media claim that a video showed upper-caste people forcing a Dalit person to drink water from their shoes. It concluded the video showed an older incident in Rajasthan, not the caste-based event described in the post. The person shown was Kaluram Devasi, whom the review identifies as a member of the Rebari (Debasi) OBC community, rather than a Dalit. To investigate, FACTLY reports using reverse-image searches of screenshots from the circulating video. It found a video with similar visuals published by Dainik Bhaskar in 2020, which described a youth being forced to drink urine and water through shoes. FACTLY also consulted reports about the incident and described the underlying event: Devasi was kidnapped and taken to an agricultural well near Sirohi on 11 June 2020. The men reportedly punished him over an alleged affair with a married woman. The review further cites the FIR as evidence about the people involved: it says the accused and Devasi belonged to the same Rebari (Debasi) OBC community, and that the case was registered under IPC sections 143, 365, 384, 342 and 323. These details do not support the post’s claim that the video depicts upper-caste people forcing a Dalit person to drink from their shoes. The video does depict coercion involving water from a shoe, but the review says the circulating post misidentifies the victim’s caste and the incident’s framing.