{"id":675568,"date":"2021-08-23T12:20:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T16:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=675568"},"modified":"2021-08-23T12:20:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T16:20:27","slug":"fact-check-no-this-image-of-afghan-women-chained-together-is-not-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-no-this-image-of-afghan-women-chained-together-is-not-real\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: No, This Image Of Afghan Women Chained Together Is Not Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-no-this-image-of-afghan-women-chained-together-is-not-real%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=675568&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Burqa-scaled-e1629471263784.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NitinKu80690057\/status\/1427168216158113796\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Twitter<\/a> purportedly shows three Afghan women chained together being led down a road by a man.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6.4761904761905\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AfghanWomen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AfghanWomen<\/a><br \/>God protect women and children because an institution like the United Nations has become impotent <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GtppZwOTdy\">pic.twitter.com\/GtppZwOTdy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nitin Sharma (@NitinKu80690057) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NitinKu80690057\/status\/1427168216158113796?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The image has been photoshopped. The original picture, taken in Iraq in 2003, shows three women walking behind a man on a street with no chains visible.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Taliban on Aug. 15 captured Afghanistan\u2019s capital city, Kabul, prompting fear among Afghans that the militant group will reinstitute the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/08\/19\/sharia-law-afghanistan-taliban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">oppressive rules<\/a> it enforced under its interpretation of sharia law while previously in power in the 90s, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/afghanistan-taliban-13304940ec709865ca52aae2d832b963\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the crisis in the country, social media users have shared an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NitinKu80690057\/status\/1427168216158113796\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">image<\/a> allegedly showing three Afghan women wearing burqas who look to be chained together at the ankles. In the picture, a man walks ahead of them, seemingly holding the end of the chain.<\/p>\n<p>The photo appears to have been digitally altered, as a reverse image search revealed it has been shared online for over a decade, often <a href=\"https:\/\/rozw.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">showing<\/a> the women <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/alimarante\/5911231388\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">without<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/triangulations.wordpress.com\/tag\/pakistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">chains<\/a>. One 2006 instance of the picture <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trekearth.com\/gallery\/Middle_East\/Iraq\/North\/Baghdad\/photo364305.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">can be found<\/a> on the website Trek Earth, where the photo, in which no chains are visible, is attributed to photographer Murat Duzyol.<\/p>\n<p>In an email to Check Your Fact, Duzyol confirmed the version of the picture that includes chains is a doctored version of a photo he took in Iraq in 2003. He explained the original was taken after a commemoration ceremony for Iraqi citizens who had been killed in the Iraqi city of Erbil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs people were returning to their homes after the ceremony, such a composition randomly appeared on the street,\u201d said Duzyol. \u201cIt\u2019s a completely instant snapshot and completely natural. The women obviously knew each other, but I\u2019m not sure they knew the man.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/08\/19\/fact-check-indian-air-force-plane-evacuating-afghanistan\/\">(RELATED: Does This Image Show An Indian Air Force Plane Evacuating People From Afghanistan?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He also said that despite warning people about the digitally manipulated version of the picture, it continues to be shared online.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban said last week that it would respect women\u2019s rights within the confines of Islamic religious law,&nbsp;according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/shariah-law-afghanistan-women.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a>. Under the Taliban\u2019s previous rule in Afghanistan, women\u2019s rights were severely restricted. Afghan women were not allowed to work or receive an education and were required to wear a burqa and have a male relative chaperone when they left their homes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/afghanistan-islamic-sharia-law-womens-rights-what-is\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CBS News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Twitter purportedly shows three Afghan women chained together being led down a road by a man. #AfghanWomenGod protect women and children because an institution like the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}