Fact check: Picture From Venezuela Passed Off As Atrocities On Kashmiri Muslims By Indian Army

The Logical Indian Fact check team investigates the claim that gruesome photo of several bodies lying on the ground shows the Indian Army's treatment of Muslims living in Kashmir.

Jammu and Kashmir   |   17 Jun 2020 12:51 PM GMT / Updated : 2020-06-17T18:23:58+05:30
Writer : Aditi Chattopadhyay | Editor : Bharat Nayak | Creatives : Abhishek M
Fact check: Picture From Venezuela Passed Off As Atrocities On Kashmiri Muslims By Indian Army

A disturbing photograph showing several bodies lying on the ground is being circulated on social media with the claim that it shows the Indian Army's atrocities on Muslims in Kashmir.

"How the Indian Army is killing our Muslim brothers. Our Muslim brothers and sisters are being tortured in Kashmir. Pray for our Muslims," reads the caption of one such post. It has been shared over 1000 times.


The image has been shared extensively on Facebook and Twitter.





Claim:

Gruesome photo of several bodies lying on the ground shows the Indian Army's treatment of Muslims living in Kashmir.

Fact Check:

The claim is false.

Photo Not From India

A reverse image search was done using Yandex, a Russian internet search tool which led to a report by Madhousenews, titled, '50 Dead, 60 Wounded After Venezuela Prison Uprising'




Based on that information a keyword search was done which led to a report by The Guardian which said that a riot had broken out at a prison in central Venezuela, which claimed the lives of at least 40 people and 50 were injured.

The incident occurred at the Llanos penitentiary on May 1 when an inmate protested demanding that their relatives be allowed to deliver them food. This was followed by an armed confrontation between inmates and guards.

Located in the city of Guanare, the prison is 450 kilometres south-west of the capital of Caracas.

The coastal country has approximately 30 prisons and 500 jails that can hold an estimated 110,000 inmates. Human rights officials say the prisons are violent and badly overcrowded, with gangs that traffic weapons and drugs.

Venezuelan Prison Observatory, a human rights group stated that the Guanare prison was built to hold 750 inmates but is filled beyond capacity with 2,500 inmates.

A year ago, a similar riot had occurred in a nearby prison also in the state of Portuguese.

Further, a news website PanAm Post also carried the viral picture taken from a different angle. The report too mentioned the incident mentioned above.


Therefore, the viral pictures have no connection with Kashmir or the Indian Army. They depict an unrelated incident that occurred in Venezuela.

If you have any news that you believe needs to be fact-checked, please email us at factcheck@thelogicalindian.com or WhatsApp at 6364000343.

Also Read: Fact Check: Did MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan Order Officials To Distribute Liquor In The State?

Claim Review :  Gruesome photo of several bodies lying on the ground shows the Indian Army’s treatment of Muslims living in Kashmir.
Claimed By :  Social Media posts
Fact Check :  False
Suggest a correction

    Help Us Correct

    To err is human, to help correct is humane
    Identified a factual or typographical error in this story? Kindly use this form to alert our editors
  • *
  • *
  • *
  • Form Submitted Successfully
    Error in submitting form. Try again later

Contributors

Aditi Chattopadhyay

Aditi Chattopadhyay

Fact Checker

"I like to read, cook my own food and note down witty lines. Fact checking reminds of the time when I was a kid and would go hunting for whatever caught my fancy in that moment."

Bharat Nayak

Bharat Nayak

Founding Editor- Special Project

I am a passionate writer and believe in the power of the social media to bring about social change – it is the small things that each one of us add that contribute to the bigger picture.

Abhishek M

Abhishek M

Trainee Creative Producer

"Engineer by education, creative producer by profession, Photoshop interests me, travelling makes me happy, its a whole new world there every day"

Next Story
https://thelogicalindian.com/fact-check/bodies-ground-indian-army-muslims-kashmir-21743
thelogicalindian.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2020-29
246695
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:X3TW6RIINYDQDPQC7GHKXQ2QPYLMV6VV
<urn:uuid:39761a0a-f17d-4b9c-91d4-d65dd3c6521c>
2020-07-02T11:44:08Z
172.67.198.209
text/html
sha1:VODPZDOMHWFADTVU5URTJRKUBI7VSQ4E
<urn:uuid:addd4cb8-ef54-45b9-989a-061a040c148c>
https://thelogicalindian.com/fact-check/bodies-ground-indian-army-muslims-kashmir-21743
response
<urn:uuid:6c94f2c2-557e-4013-8096-56c9f26fc9af>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-29
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for July 2020
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-83.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.17 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/