“Video showing Taliban hanging a man on a Black Hawk helicopter in Kandahar”
What Fact Crescendo found
The man seen hanging to a black hawk helicopter in the viral video is alive and he was a Talibani militant trying to hoist a flag inside the premises of Kandahar Provincial Government Building. As claimed in the narratives doing rounds of social media he is not an innocent being persecuted by the Taliban.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 31 August 2021. Fact Crescendo (India) looked into it and published its finding on 31 August 2021. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
- Post on Xhttps://twitter.com/H_M_Parker/status/1432438873242718210
- Post on Xhttps://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1432542966426607619
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This check was done by Fact Crescendo, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.
Related checks
- PolitiFact: False“A video shows the “Taliban hanging someone from a helicopter.”