False-claim

It was late at night. After a hard day's work, rickshaw puller Md. Fayez Ahmed was supposed to be heading home. Instead, a crowd gathered around him that night. Accused of being a drug user, he was brutally beaten with sticks and iron rods. At one point, the attackers left him bleeding by the roadside and walked away. Local residents later rescued him and took him to a hospital, but he could not be saved.A false accusation, a mob and a merciless beating brought the life of a working man to an en...

A video has recently circulated on social media claiming that BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir praised former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Parliament. The caption accompanying the video claims, “Development like Sheikh Hasina’s will not happen even in the next 100 years; Mirza Fakhrul took charge of the Awami League in Parliament.” However, an investigation found that the claim is false and fabricated. The misleading video was created by editing together footage of a s...

A video was posted yesterday from an X account named ‘@banglaleague224’, showing several people attacking and vandalizing a shop. The post presented the footage with the caption, “The law-and-order situation in Bangladesh has reached an extreme deterioration. The incident took place in Mohammadpur. There is no peace anywhere. The country has now descended into complete anarchy.” However, an investigation found that the viral claim is completely false. The video has no connection to Banglad...

A misleading claim and social media posts have recently been circulated regarding the death of July Uprising martyr Abu Sayed. The posts include an image of his death certificate or proof of death and claim that although Abu Sayed was seen being shot between 1 pm and 2 pm, records on the death document show that he was brought to the hospital at 8:05 pm as ‘Brought Dead.’ Based on this long gap in time, the posts claim that if it is revealed where he was kept for those 6 to 7 hours, the r...