{"id":66498,"date":"2020-05-13T20:48:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T15:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=66498"},"modified":"2020-05-13T21:14:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T15:44:14","slug":"congress-members-journalists-share-image-of-rohingyas-as-migrant-workers-amid-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/congress-members-journalists-share-image-of-rohingyas-as-migrant-workers-amid-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress members, journalists share image of Rohingyas as migrant workers amid lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

The official Twitter handle of the SC department of the Indian National Congress posted<\/a> an image of a man carrying an old woman on his back with a message targetting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government. “.@narendramodi \u091c\u0940, \u0915\u094d\u092f\u093e \u0906\u092a \u0907\u0928\u0915\u0947 \u091a\u0947\u0939\u0930\u0947 \u0915\u0940 \u092c\u0947\u092c\u0938\u0940 \u0915\u094b \u0906\u092a \u092a\u0922\u093c \u092a\u093e \u0930\u0939\u0947 \u0939\u0948\u0902? \u0915\u0941\u091b \u0924\u094b \u0915\u0930\u094b \u0938\u0930\u0915\u093e\u0930.. (@narendramodi, can you see the helplessness on their faces? the government should do something -translated),” reads the tweet.<\/p>\n

\"\"National campaign in-charge of IYC Srivatsa too tweeted<\/a> the same image while criticising the Indian Railways for charging tickets from migrants stranded across the country.<\/p>\n

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Journalist Vinod Dua referred<\/a> to the same image during his show for HW News on May 11, 2020. A screenshot from the broadcast is posted below.<\/p>\n

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Economist Rupa Subramanya<\/a> and journalist Swati Chaturvedi<\/a> posted a collage of photos which included the picture.<\/p>\n

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Fact-check<\/h4>\n

With the help of a Google reverse image search, Alt News found that the image was published<\/a> by International news agency Pressenza on November 8, 2017. “Rohingya Refugees at Cox\u2019s Bazar, Bangladesh,” reads the title of the article. The image is credited to a photographer named Mobarak Hossain. It depicts the condition of the Rohingya refugees who made their way to Bangladesh.<\/p>\n

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Moreover, we found a video of the man carrying his mother on his back, posted by the Facebook channel Middle East Update<\/a> on September 9, 2017. “I have carried my mother on my back for 4 days on foot after Myanmar soldiers set fire to our house (-Google translation),” the post quoted the Rohingya man as saying. This further corroborated the image is more than two years old. Boomlive<\/a> found an article published by a Bengali website<\/a> on September 6, 2017. According to the report, Osiur Rahman entered Bangladesh while carrying his 75-year-old mother Mamtaz Begum on his back.<\/p>\n

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Seorang pria Rohingya dalam perjalanannya mengungsi berkata, “Saya telah menggendong ibu saya di punggung saya selama 4 hari berjalan kaki setelah tentara Myanmar membakar rumah kita,” .<\/p>\n

Posted by Middle EAST Update<\/a> on\u00a0Saturday, 9 September 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Therefore, an image of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh from 2017 was passed off as helpless Indian migrants travelling back to their homes amidst the lockdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The official Twitter handle of the SC department of the Indian National Congress posted an image of a man carrying an old woman on his back with a message targetting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government. “.@narendramodi \u091c\u0940, \u0915\u094d\u092f\u093e \u0906\u092a \u0907\u0928\u0915\u0947 \u091a\u0947\u0939\u0930\u0947 \u0915\u0940 \u092c\u0947\u092c\u0938\u0940 \u0915\u094b \u0906\u092a \u092a\u0922\u093c \u092a\u093e \u0930\u0939\u0947 \u0939\u0948\u0902? \u0915\u0941\u091b \u0924\u094b \u0915\u0930\u094b \u0938\u0930\u0915\u093e\u0930.. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":66546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[152],"class_list":["post-66498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-photos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/Rohingya-refugee.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66498"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66627,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66498\/revisions\/66627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66498"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=66498"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=66498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}