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Crime & justice fact checks

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

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NewtralCrime & justice

La revista TIME dedica su portada a la Policía Nacional

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim concerns an image presented as a TIME cover featuring Spain’s Policía Nacional. Newtral says the image is a montage, not an authentic cover. The review also reports that the Policía Nacional had already denied this image, alongside another image praising the Guardia Civil. Its cited example is a post from the police’s official account dated January 8, 2018. The account describes its sources as the official Twitter accounts of the Policía Nacional and Guardia Civil. The supplied review does not give further details about how the image was constructed or identify an authentic TIME cover for comparison, so those details cannot be established from this excerpt.

NewtralCrime & justice

FAKE | Ni fue en un hospital español ni se sabe la nacionalidad del agresor

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The viral post claimed that a video of a man attacking two nurses showed an incident in a Spanish hospital and that the attacker was Muslim. Newtral says neither assertion is supported: the hospital was not in Spain, and the video does not establish the attacker’s nationality or origin. Newtral identifies the scene as an assault at the Regional Clinical Hospital in Novgorod, Russia, in February 2017. It reports that Russia’s main public broadcaster, 1TV, said the man was drunk and had been taken to the hospital after a fight in a café. That account supplies a different setting and lead-up from the Spanish-hospital framing, while the video itself provides no basis for the post’s claim about the attacker’s origin.

YouturnCrime & justice

20-ம் நூற்றாண்டில் மிகக் குறைந்த வயதில் மரண தண்டனைக்கு உட்படுத்தப்பட்ட சிறுவன் தான் ஜார்ஜ். இக்கொடூரமான தண்டனையை ஜார்ஜ் பெறும் போது அவனது வயது 14 தான். 70 வருடங்கள் கழித்து ஜார்ஜ் குற்றவாளி இல்லை என அமெரிக்காவின் தெற்கு கரோலினா நீதிமன்றம் தீர்ப்பு வழங்கியது. படத்தில் எலெக்ட்ரிக் ஷாக் மூலம் மரண தண்டனையை நிறைவேற்றுவதை பார்க்கலாம்.

Publisher’s rating: Mix

FACTLYCrime & justice

Provided for penalties for offences committed against persons with disabilities (PwDs)

Publisher’s rating: TRUE

FACTLY examined a government infographic’s claim that penalties had been provided for offences against persons with disabilities. The review identified Chapter 16 of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 as the part of the law addressing offences and penalties. It reports that a first violation of the Act can be punished by a fine of up to Rs 10,000; for a subsequent violation, the fine is at least Rs 50,000 and may reach Rs 5 lakh. It also notes that the Act provides prison terms for certain violations. [S1] The review’s account therefore supports the specific claim that the Act provides penalties. It adds an important qualification: these provisions were not newly introduced by the current government. FACTLY states that penalties were already part of the original bill introduced by the UPA government in 2014. The article also distinguishes the Act’s penalties from constitutional non-discrimination protections, saying that before this Act there had not been provisions for penalizing offences against persons with disabilities. [S1]