{"id":78438,"date":"2020-10-21T20:16:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T14:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=78438"},"modified":"2020-10-21T20:16:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T14:46:56","slug":"woman-arrested-for-not-wearing-mask-in-singapore-no-false-claim-she-arrested-for-allegedly-pouring-soup-on-stranger-and-biting-his-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/woman-arrested-for-not-wearing-mask-in-singapore-no-false-claim-she-arrested-for-allegedly-pouring-soup-on-stranger-and-biting-his-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Video from Singapore falsely shared as woman arrested for not wearing mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editors Guild of India treasurer Sheela Bhat tweeted a video of a woman being arrested and wrote, &#8220;In Singspore (sic), if no mask, straight arrest. No sympathy.&#8221; The woman in the video can be seen arguing with authorities. Around the 45th second mark, she can be heard saying, &#8220;Stop\u2026 this is against human rights&#8221;. This video has been viewed over 80,000 times. (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.vn\/CyTqo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">archived link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In Singspore, if no mask, straight arrest.<br \/>\nNo sympathy. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JYkh2QchDk\">pic.twitter.com\/JYkh2QchDk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sheela Bhatt (@sheela2010) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sheela2010\/status\/1318413071740645377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The video was also promoted by several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/posts\/?q=In%20Singapore%2C%20if%20no%20mask%2C%20straight%20arrest&amp;f=AbrQiQlM6y_5vGjpNY-A7Q9SvzCeTp0lbAcdNiY2eZXkHrs-g5ZZXABC-6kDRjgkHvLBsBN6WCJ7bfJwhpJrMvK8BYb0EpWxAx8ZfpNQWV8cFLBLrYvf_-XhccZcYBQTj4ERTB7xke_QsUmO_IX7lnXgxaTj8CM_ImW2G7hSLDsypg&amp;filters=eyJycF9hdXRob3IiOiJ7XCJuYW1lXCI6XCJtZXJnZWRfcHVibGljX3Bvc3RzXCIsXCJhcmdzXCI6XCJcIn0ifQ%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> users including the page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/allsgstuff\/videos\/360821681784335\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">All Singapore Stuff<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.vn\/iMXcX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">archived link<\/a>).with the text, &#8220;Woman in yellow arrested. Was it even necessary to handcuff her?&#8221; This post gained over 1,000 likes and 800 comments. People in the comments assume she was arrested for not wearing a mask.<\/p>\n<p>Alt News received several requests to fact-check the claim on our WhatsApp helpline (+917600011160) and <a title=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.altnews\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.altnews\" data-from-md=\"\">official Android application<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-78438 gallery-columns-1 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\/woman-arrested-for-not-wearing-mask-in-singapore-no-false-claim-she-arrested-for-allegedly-pouring-soup-on-stranger-and-biting-his-hand\/2020-10-21-16_08_49\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"707\" height=\"889\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/2020-10-21-16_08_49-.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/2020-10-21-16_08_49-.jpg 707w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/2020-10-21-16_08_49--239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/woman-arrested-for-not-wearing-mask-in-singapore-no-false-claim-she-arrested-for-allegedly-pouring-soup-on-stranger-and-biting-his-hand\/2020-10-21-16_07_26-watch-_-facebook\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1029\" height=\"799\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/2020-10-21-16_07_26-Watch-_-Facebook.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/2020-10-21-16_07_26-Watch-_-Facebook.jpg 1029w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/2020-10-21-16_07_26-Watch-_-Facebook-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/2020-10-21-16_07_26-Watch-_-Facebook-1024x795.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/2020-10-21-16_07_26-Watch-_-Facebook-768x596.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1029px) 100vw, 1029px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/woman-arrested-for-not-wearing-mask-in-singapore-no-false-claim-she-arrested-for-allegedly-pouring-soup-on-stranger-and-biting-his-hand\/2020-10-21-16_17_50-this-video-was-not-of-arrest-for-not-wearing-a-mask-the-woman-misbehaved-with-a\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"832\" height=\"583\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/2020-10-21-16_17_50-This-video-was-not-of-arrest-for-not-wearing-a-mask-the-woman-misbehaved-with-a.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/2020-10-21-16_17_50-This-video-was-not-of-arrest-for-not-wearing-a-mask-the-woman-misbehaved-with-a.jpg 832w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/2020-10-21-16_17_50-This-video-was-not-of-arrest-for-not-wearing-a-mask-the-woman-misbehaved-with-a-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/2020-10-21-16_17_50-This-video-was-not-of-arrest-for-not-wearing-a-mask-the-woman-misbehaved-with-a-768x538.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 832px) 100vw, 832px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h4>Fact-check<\/h4>\n<p>Alt News performed Google search using the keywords &#8220;Singapore woman arrest&#8221; and found that Singapore-based newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todayonline.com\/singapore\/woman-35-arrested-after-allegedly-causing-hurt-restaurant-patron-novena-square-pouring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Today Online<\/a> reported that the incident took place on October 14 at Novena Square mall<span class=\"js-about-item-abstr\">. As per the report, the woman was <\/span>arrested by the police after she poured soup over a stranger\u2019s head and bit him. It added that the woman&#8217;s relative was present at the scene but was unable to calm her down. The victim was taken to the Tan Tock Seng Hospital.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-78465 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/Woman-arrested-after-she-allegedly-poured-soup-on-stranger-spat-at-him-and-bit-his-arm-TODAYonline.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"725\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/Woman-arrested-after-she-allegedly-poured-soup-on-stranger-spat-at-him-and-bit-his-arm-TODAYonline.jpg 725w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/Woman-arrested-after-she-allegedly-poured-soup-on-stranger-spat-at-him-and-bit-his-arm-TODAYonline-283x300.jpg 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The police told Today Online, &#8220;The woman is also being investigated for voluntarily causing hurt and using criminal force to deter a public servant from carrying out his duties. She had hurled verbal abuse and also spat on the officers in the process.&#8221; The woman is reportedly being treated at a mental health institution.<\/p>\n<p>Singaporean leader M Ravi criticised the police in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ravi.mravi.7\/videos\/10214396323062370\/?t=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook post<\/a> wrote that the arrest was an abuse of power as the woman was apprehended by three male cops and a female officer. He said that a lawyer sent him the video to help the woman.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/woman-viral-clip-arrested-allegedly-spitting-and-biting-man-novena-square\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Asia One<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/stomp.straitstimes.com\/singapore-seen\/woman-allegedly-poured-soup-over-mans-head-at-novena-square-bit-his-hand-and-verbally\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stomp<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mothership.sg\/2020\/10\/velocity-novena-woman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mothership<\/a> also reported about the incident.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-78438 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a 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https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/Woman-apprehended-by-police-at-Novena-Square-after-allegedly-pouring-soup-on-man-s-head-biting-his-hand-Mothership-SG-News-from-Singapore-Asia-and-around-the-world-1536x756.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1715px) 100vw, 1715px\" \/><\/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\/woman-arrested-for-not-wearing-mask-in-singapore-no-false-claim-she-arrested-for-allegedly-pouring-soup-on-stranger-and-biting-his-hand\/woman-in-viral-clip-arrested-for-allegedly-spitting-at-and-biting-man-at-novena-square-singapore-news-asiaone\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"812\" height=\"971\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/Woman-in-viral-clip-arrested-for-allegedly-spitting-at-and-biting-man-at-Novena-Square-Singapore-News-AsiaOne.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/Woman-in-viral-clip-arrested-for-allegedly-spitting-at-and-biting-man-at-Novena-Square-Singapore-News-AsiaOne.jpg 812w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/Woman-in-viral-clip-arrested-for-allegedly-spitting-at-and-biting-man-at-Novena-Square-Singapore-News-AsiaOne-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/Woman-in-viral-clip-arrested-for-allegedly-spitting-at-and-biting-man-at-Novena-Square-Singapore-News-AsiaOne-768x918.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 812px) 100vw, 812px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/woman-arrested-for-not-wearing-mask-in-singapore-no-false-claim-she-arrested-for-allegedly-pouring-soup-on-stranger-and-biting-his-hand\/woman-allegedly-poured-soup-over-man-s-head-and-bit-his-hand-verbally-abused-police-at-novena-square\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1296\" height=\"742\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/Woman-allegedly-poured-soup-over-man-s-head-and-bit-his-hand-verbally-abused-police-at-Novena-Square.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/Woman-allegedly-poured-soup-over-man-s-head-and-bit-his-hand-verbally-abused-police-at-Novena-Square.jpg 1296w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/Woman-allegedly-poured-soup-over-man-s-head-and-bit-his-hand-verbally-abused-police-at-Novena-Square-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/Woman-allegedly-poured-soup-over-man-s-head-and-bit-his-hand-verbally-abused-police-at-Novena-Square-1024x586.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/Woman-allegedly-poured-soup-over-man-s-head-and-bit-his-hand-verbally-abused-police-at-Novena-Square-768x440.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Therefore a video from Singapore that shows a woman resisting arrest after she assaulted a stranger in a mall is being shared with the false claim that she was taken into custody for not wearing a mask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editors Guild of India treasurer Sheela Bhat tweeted a video of a woman being arrested and wrote, &#8220;In Singspore (sic), if no mask, straight arrest. No sympathy.&#8221; The woman in the video can be seen arguing with authorities. Around the 45th second mark, she can be heard saying, &#8220;Stop\u2026 this is against human rights&#8221;. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":78449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[691],"class_list":["post-78438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","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\/10\/sketch1603208695260.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78438","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78438"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78474,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78438\/revisions\/78474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78438"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=78438"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=78438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}