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Fact CrescendoCrime & justice

Claim: Police Alert issued ahead of Ayodhya Verdict

Publisher’s rating: False

The review examined a social-media message saying police had issued an alert because the Ayodhya verdict was approaching. It says the message was circulating on Facebook and WhatsApp and identifies a Facebook account called “New Search” as one that shared it. The review’s focus was whether the particular claim of a new police rule was true—not whether authorities had taken any security or public-order steps at all. To assess the setting, the review notes that a verdict was expected by November 15 and that restrictions under Section 144 were already in effect in the Ayodhya area until December 10. It also describes other measures: the Uttar Pradesh government and police had taken law-and-order steps, and security had been strengthened in Ayodhya’s surrounding areas and elsewhere in Uttar Pradesh. Separately, it cites a November 4 announcement by Ayodhya’s district magistrate restricting social-media messages and posters that could disturb communal harmony, with the prohibition in force until December 28. The review presents that measure as related to the verdict and upcoming festivals, not as the newly issued police alert alleged in the viral post. The review says Ayodhya police had also advised people not to believe rumors and had issued an explanation. Its stated conclusion is that no such new rule had been issued in connection with the Ayodhya matter, and it treats the Facebook post under examination as false. Thus, the evidence in the excerpt distinguishes existing local restrictions and other security precautions from the specific purported new police alert.

YouturnCrime & justice

சுர்ஜித் தந்தையை போல தானும் பணக்காரனாக வேண்டும் என்று மகளைக் கொன்ற அப்பா ? சுர்ஜித் தந்தைக்கு பணம் கொடுத்தது தவறான எடுத்துக்காட்டாக மாறி இன்று ஒரு சிறுமியின் உயிரை பழிவாங்கியுள்ளது . இனியாவது திருந்துவார்களா ?

Publisher’s rating: Fake

Fact CrescendoCrime & justice

Claim: Saudi government ordered to behead 6 girls for birthday celebration

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

Fact Crescendo investigated a viral Dinamani report alleging that Saudi Arabia had ordered the beheading of six schoolgirls. The review says Dinamani shared the post on October 31, 2017, and that it was widely shared as true. The supplied excerpt does not describe a birthday celebration, so it does not establish that detail of the claim.

Pagella PoliticaCrime & justice

«In Italia ci sono 0,05 Centri antiviolenza ogni 10mila abitanti. È un dato drammaticamente basso, considerato che la Convenzione di Istanbul, che il nostro Paese ha ratificato nel 2013, ne prevede 20 volte tanti. [...] Le donne che si rivolgono ai Centri sono in aumento e la maggior parte di loro porta con sé i bambini»

Publisher’s rating: Vero

Pagella Politica checked a Facebook post by Forza Italia deputy Mara Carfagna that gave Italy’s rate of anti-violence centres as 0.05 per 10,000 residents, said the Istanbul Convention called for twenty times as many, and added that more women were seeking help and most brought children. The review compared the centre count with Istat’s latest figures, examined the legal basis for the population-based target, and used Istat and regional data to assess the statements about women and children. Istat reported 281 centres operating in Italy at the end of 2017, a rate of 0.05 per 10,000 inhabitants. The review notes that this count included only centres meeting the requirements of a 2014 agreement between the State and Regions; Istat identified another 106 centres that had not joined it. Counting those as well would raise the rate to 0.069 per 10,000. The review therefore found Carfagna’s quoted 0.05 figure accurate, while explaining what it counted. The review found an important qualification in the claim about the Istanbul Convention. Italy ratified the convention in 2013, but the convention does not specify a requirement of one centre per 10,000 people. The review traces that numerical target instead to a 1999 European Union expert meeting and says Italian legislation subsequently committed the country to meeting it. On the remaining claims, Istat figures showed that 63.7 percent of women who began an exit-from-violence programme in 2017 had children; regional data described by the review generally showed rising use of centres. It cautions that there were no aggregated national figures for the recent years examined, so the trend evidence was regional.