{"id":1604,"date":"2021-08-19T10:22:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T10:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2022-02-21T09:53:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T09:53:50","slug":"old-video-of-a-woman-shot-in-the-head-goes-viral-as-recent-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/old-video-of-a-woman-shot-in-the-head-goes-viral-as-recent-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Old video from Syria shared as woman shot to death by the Taliban recently at Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As India celebrated its 75th Independence Day on Sunday, Taliban forces entered the Afghan capital Kabul forcing the incumbent President Ashraf Ghani to flee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the aftermath of the fall of Kabul, social media witnessed a flurry of disturbing that went viral in no time. Some of those videos, however, have been debunked as old and misleading by Fact Crescendo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One such video going viral across social media platforms shows a burqa clad woman being shot to death on the streets and captions being shared with the video states that it happened because she was not accompanied by a male on the streets of Afghanistan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve received multiple requests to verify the information on our 24×7 WhatsApp Factline number 904 905 3770. Archived Video<\/a> | Archived Request<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fact Crescendo found that the the claim is False. The video is actually from 2015 when reportedly a woman charged with adultery was executed by al-Qaeda\u2019s Syria wing, al-Nusra Front, outside the city of Idlib. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fact Check Methodology<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first we split the video into keyframes using the In Vid- We Verify tool and came across a link to a page published at 9:17pm On Jan 18, 2015 on the website Nairaland Forum. The page has a link to the video with a thumbnail of the gory scene and has the caption \u201cShocking Jabhat Al-nusra Execute Woman For Adultery By Shooting Her Top Of Head.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screenshot, Nairaland Forum<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following this, we ran a relevant keyword search on Google and came across multiple news reports on the incident. The Daily Mail reported on January 15, 2015 about the incident with the headline: \u201cThe execution that sickened even ISIS: Woman accused of adultery is shot by Al Qaeda in Syria… but even rival Islamists say a veiled woman should not have been killed.\u201d The report says that the footage has been filmed by Jabhat al-Nusra fighter in Ma’arat al-Nu’man, located in the north-western city of Idlib. Read more: Daily Mail<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We saw a similar report on Vice News, published on January 15, 2015 with the headline: \u201cSyrian Militants Publicly Execute a Woman Accused of Committing Adultery.\u201d The report has a screenshot of the viral video and states that Suspected members of al Nusra Front reportedly shot a woman to death in the street after refusing her request to see her children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screenshot of the report on Vice News<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the above Fact Check it is clear that the viral video of a burqa clad woman being shot is not recent but is from January 2015. Contrary to the claim, the video is not from Afghanistan but is from Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t