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สำนักข่าวอิศราCrime & justice

คำพิพากษา 4 คดีนักการเมืองท้องถิ่น ยื่นบัญชีฯเท็จ นายก อบต. เขาขาว จ.สตูล รองนายกเทศฯบ้านนา นครนายก รองฯ อบต.บึงนคร ร้อยเอ็ด รองนายกเทศฯศาลายา นครปฐม ห้ามดำรงตำแหน่ง 5 ปี จำคุกคนละ 1-2 เดือน ปรับ 4,000-8,000 บาท รอลงโทษ 1 ปีรวด

Publisher’s rating: 4

FACTLYCrime & justice

While a person named ‘Anurag Mishra’ is involved in Jafrabad gun shootings on February 24th, some propagandists are sharing that the shooter name is ‘Sharukh’

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns gunshots fired in Jafrabad, Delhi, on February 24, and a post that identified Anurag Mishra as the shooter while some people named the shooter “Sharukh.” The review distinguishes between the two people shown in the post: it says the person who fired the shots was Mohammed Sharukh, while the other photos showed Anurag Mishra, who was not involved in the shooting. The review identifies the shooter’s red shirt as a detail visible in one of the post’s photos. To check the identification, the review says it compared a photo of the Jafrabad shooter with photos on Mishra’s Facebook profile. It reports differences in their eyebrows, eyes, and noses, supporting its conclusion that the people pictured were not the same person. The review also describes two pieces of contemporaneous reporting: a Hindustan Times article about a man in a red shirt and blue trousers firing several rounds in Jafrabad, and an ANI tweet reporting that Delhi police identified the shooter as Mohammed Sharukh. A separate ANI tweet, according to the review, said Sharukh had been taken into custody. The review further reports that Mishra responded to images of him circulating as the shooter by saying he would file a police case against people sharing false information; it says he made a similar statement in a Facebook live. Taken together, the review’s account separates the shooter from the person whose photos were also circulated and attributes the shooter identification to Delhi police reporting, rather than treating the images of Mishra as proof of his involvement.

Himanshi DahiyaCrime & justice

Assam cops punishing coronavirus lockdown defaulters

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerned an image said to show an Assam policeman punishing people for breaking India’s coronavirus lockdown. The review says the image was instead from Karachi, Pakistan, and showed police punishing lockdown violators at Surjani Town. It describes the Pakistani lockdown as having come into force on 23 March. The investigation reports two checks. First, the reviewer examined the policeman’s sleeve badge, which appeared to resemble Pakistan’s flag, but noted that the image was too unclear to establish this by itself. The reviewer then searched Google using the terms “Pakistan police punishes defaulters” and found a DAWN report dated 24 March. According to the review, that report identified the image as showing police punishing lockdown defaulters at Surjani Town in Karachi. That reported identification places the pictured incident in Pakistan, not Assam. The review therefore concludes that an image of Pakistani police enforcing lockdown restrictions was being shared with a misleading Assam attribution. The excerpt does not provide the image itself or further details about the DAWN report, so the account of that corroboration is limited to what the review states.

NewtralCrime & justice

La Policía Nacional ha emitido una orden de domiciliación en Madrid bajo multas de 1.000 €

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim concerned a supposed order requiring people in the Community of Madrid to stay home from 9 p.m. to 9 a.m., with a €1,000 fine for non-compliance. The review describes the item as a document circulating on WhatsApp and says it carried the logos of both the Presidency of the Government and the National Police. Those details identify the specific document at issue, rather than a general claim about lockdown rules. The review reports that the National Police denied issuing the document through its Twitter account. On that basis, it concludes that the purported order was not an authentic instruction from the police. The excerpt does not provide the police post’s text or a link to it, so it supports the reported denial but does not allow further examination of that response. The review’s conclusion is that the document was false. Its account does not establish that the stated restriction or fine was an actual measure; instead, it describes those terms as part of the circulating document and attributes the denial of its authenticity to the National Police.

FACTLYCrime & justice

Video of Italian police taking down a man who has come on to the streets despite lockdown in the country

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a video of police taking down and handcuffing a man, said to show Italian officers enforcing the country’s COVID-19 lockdown. FACTLY’s review identifies the footage instead as an incident in São Paulo, Brazil, on 19 March: police detained a man who was allegedly wielding a knife. The review says the incident had no connection to Italy’s lockdown. The review describes two ways it traced the footage. Reverse-image searches of screenshots located the same video in a social-media post, where commenters disputed the claim that it was filmed in Italy. One commenter linked a report about the incident. FACTLY says that report described Brazil’s Military Police taking down a man who had allegedly threatened people with a knife at Avenida do Estado in São Paulo, and later arresting him and registering a case. As additional corroboration, the review points to an article by Brazilian news agency Globo, though the supplied excerpt does not provide details from that article. The review also places the claim against the broader Italian lockdown timeline: restrictions had been in force since 9 March, and, according to the review, Italy’s prime minister prohibited movement across the country on 22 March. That background does not establish the video’s location; the review’s account of the footage and the Brazilian incident report does.

台灣事實查核中心Crime & justice

錯誤 【錯誤】網傳「從嘉義往太保的高鐵大道，過第一漁市場後的第一段上坡至下坡路段，昨日警察已安裝『區間測速』7-8秒...超速罰款3600元，每增加一公里，罰款多100元」？

Publisher’s rating: 錯誤

The rumor concerned a particular stretch of the High-Speed Rail Boulevard from Chiayi toward Taibao, after the First Fish Market. It alleged that police had installed average-speed enforcement there, measuring vehicles over seven to eight seconds, and that speeding would cost NT$3,600 plus NT$100 for each additional kilometer. The review addressed both the enforcement device and the asserted fine schedule. For the location claim, the review says the fact-checking center asked the Chiayi County Police Bureau’s traffic unit. It reports that the bureau described the device at the indicated stretch as a mobile speed-measuring device, not interval speed enforcement. The Water上 Precinct’s traffic unit also confirmed that a mobile device was used on the Chiayi-to-Taibao boulevard and gave the speed limit as 70 km/h. Those findings distinguish the reported enforcement arrangement from the rumor’s claim of interval measurement. For the fine claim, the review says it consulted the version of the Uniform Penalty Standards for Violations of Road Traffic Management in effect on October 1, 2019. It reports that ordinary-road speeding fines were NT$1,200–2,400 for the stated lower speeding range and NT$6,000–24,000 for the higher range it describes. It further says penalties were grouped in 20 km/h increments, rather than increasing by NT$100 for every additional kilometer. On the evidence reported, neither the claimed interval system nor the stated fine calculation matched the cited police information and penalty table.

Fact CrescendoCrime & justice

Claim: Hindu Makkal Katchi functionary attacked by culprits in Tirupur

Publisher’s rating: False

The viral post claimed that Hindu Makkal Katchi functionary Bhagavan Nandhu had been attacked in Tiruppur with sickles in seven places and was in hospital fighting for his life. The review says a screenshot of the post circulated on social media, alongside a video showing an injured man being treated at a hospital. It traces examples of the post to social-media users who shared it on March 17 and 18, 2020. To investigate, the publisher searched for reporting on an attack on a Hindu Makkal Katchi functionary in Tiruppur and found news reports and a journalist’s post containing a statement attributed to Tiruppur district police. According to the review’s account of that statement, driver Rudramurthy said Nandhagopal had injured himself with a knife, with the driver’s help, and had also injured both hands. The statement described the alleged motive as creating panic by blaming people of other religions and people wearing saffron clothing, thereby provoking a law-and-order problem and gaining political advantage. The review concludes that the claim of an attempted killing and life-threatening hospitalization was false. Its account makes clear that the video’s depiction of a wounded person was not, by itself, evidence that the viral account of who attacked him or why was true; the police statement described a different explanation for the injuries. The excerpt does not provide the underlying police statement in full, so the details of that document are available here only as reported by the fact-check.