{"id":67580,"date":"2020-05-25T23:28:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T17:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=67580"},"modified":"2021-11-02T20:52:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T15:22:01","slug":"pornographic-image-used-to-target-jmi-student-ladeeda-zargar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/pornographic-image-used-to-target-jmi-student-ladeeda-zargar\/","title":{"rendered":"Pornographic image used to target JMI student Ladeeda Farzana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Twitter handle @GahlotKanpur whose bio reads &#8220;active BJP worker&#8221; shared two photographs \u2014 an image of Muslim women talking to AIMIM chief Asaddudin Owaisi juxtaposed with a picture of a topless woman. One of the women in the first image, highlighted in red, is being claimed to be the semi-naked woman. &#8220;\u0936\u093e\u0939\u0940\u0928 \u092c\u093e\u0917 \u0915\u0940 \u0926\u0942\u0938\u0930\u0940 \u0936\u0947\u0930\u0928\u0940 \u0938\u092c\u0940\u0928\u093e \u092c\u093e\u0928\u094b \u0915\u093e \u0928\u0940\u0932\u093e \u091a\u0932 \u091a\u093f\u0924\u094d\u0930 \u092e\u093f\u0932\u093e \u0939\u0948..!! (A video of Shaheen Bagh&#8217;s second lioness has been found.)&#8221; \u2014 reads the message shared with the video.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-67678 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/sab.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/sab.png 604w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/sab-300x291.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/sab-434x420.png 434w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another user @sandeepmjainjai whose bio reads &#8220;RSS BJP Hindu&#8221; and adorns a photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as his display picture also shared the two pictures.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-67679 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/sab1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/sab1.png 592w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/sab1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/sab1-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The same has been shared on Facebook. A post by one Aashish Kumar garnered over 100 likes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-67680 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/sab2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/sab2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/sab2-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We also found a few users asking people to drop them messages if they wish to see a &#8220;colourful video of Sabina Bano&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-67580 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/pornographic-image-used-to-target-jmi-student-ladeeda-zargar\/c0f6052e-5c32-427a-811c-70ec24ef53e4\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"442\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/c0f6052e-5c32-427a-811c-70ec24ef53e4.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/c0f6052e-5c32-427a-811c-70ec24ef53e4.png 442w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/c0f6052e-5c32-427a-811c-70ec24ef53e4-218x300.png 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/pornographic-image-used-to-target-jmi-student-ladeeda-zargar\/sab-com\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"508\" height=\"688\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/sab-com.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/sab-com.jpg 508w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/sab-com-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h4>Photograph lifted from pornographic sites<\/h4>\n<p>A reverse-image search led us to several Indian porn websites where multiple photographs of the semi-naked woman were found. Along with photographs, we also found video clips of the woman with another person. In the likelihood that the videos were leaked without her knowledge, we are refraining from attaching any visuals apart from the one which is already viral. We did a facial comparison of the woman with the student activist. Quite evidently, they are not the same person.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-67682 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/sab3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/sab3.png 532w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/sab3-233x300.png 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A random, explicit image was picked up and juxtaposed with a photograph from December 2019 when Jamia students and activists Ladeeda Farzana and Aysha Renna met with AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Viral messages misidentify Farzana as &#8220;Sabina Bano&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jamia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Jamia<\/a> students Ladeeda Farzana n Aysha Renna at the protest against <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CAA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CAA<\/a> orgnzd by the United Muslim Action Committee at Darussalam. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XSgaP6xdj1\">pic.twitter.com\/XSgaP6xdj1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 @CoreenaSuares (@CoreenaSuares2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CoreenaSuares2\/status\/1208456037122002944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;That is obviously not me in the picture. This isn&#8217;t new. Anyone who criticises or speaks against the Sangh Parivar, they are targetted in this manner. They can continue with their dirty games but I will not step back. I will continue to raise my voice. This does not affect me,&#8221; Farzana told Alt News.<\/p>\n<p>Last month we had debunked another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/porn-clip-shared-on-social-media-falsely-associating-it-with-jmi-activist-safoora-zargar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pornographic photograph\/ video<\/a> circulating in JMI scholar Safoora Zargar&#8217;s name. Zargar was three months pregnant when she was lodged in Tihar jail in April under the draconian UAPA. The emerging trend of targeting prominent women student activists through pornographic content is worrisome, especially in the absence of any action from either social media companies or law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Update: Ladeeda Farzana was misidentified as Ladeeda Zargar in the article. The same has been rectified.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Twitter handle @GahlotKanpur whose bio reads &#8220;active BJP worker&#8221; shared two photographs \u2014 an image of Muslim women talking to AIMIM chief Asaddudin Owaisi juxtaposed with a picture of a topless woman. One of the women in the first image, highlighted in red, is being claimed to be the semi-naked woman. &#8220;\u0936\u093e\u0939\u0940\u0928 \u092c\u093e\u0917 \u0915\u0940 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":67677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[141],"class_list":["post-67580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religion","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos","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\/ladeeda.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67580","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67580"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67683,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67580\/revisions\/67683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67580"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=67580"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=67580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}