“Photo of crowd disregarding COVID-19 protocols at Danish Siddiqui’s funeral”
What FACTLY found
This photo is from a religious procession from Chittagong, Bangladesh taken in November 2019, not from Danish Siddiqui’s funeral. Danish Siddiqui was buried at a cemetery in Jamia Millia Islamia on 18 July 2021. The funeral was attended by hundreds with crowd gathered in proximity even when the police instructed people to follow social distancing norms. Danish Siddiqui was a Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian photojournalist who was killed in Afghanistan when he was working on an assignment for Re...
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In short
This claim spread on social media around 19 July 2021. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 20 July 2021, 1 day later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
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