{"id":83991,"date":"2021-01-09T21:34:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T16:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=83991"},"modified":"2021-01-09T21:34:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T16:04:28","slug":"old-unrelated-image-from-kashmir-shared-as-farmer-demanding-release-of-kashmiri-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-unrelated-image-from-kashmir-shared-as-farmer-demanding-release-of-kashmiri-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Old photo of man demanding release of ‘pro-freedom’ Kashmiri leaders falsely linked to farmers’ protest"},"content":{"rendered":"

A picture of a man holding a placard has recently been making rounds on social media. It reads, “Release all mainstream and pro-freedom Kashmiri leadership. Dal Khalsa Sad (Amritsar)”. Users are claiming that this man is part of the farmers’ protest movement. BJP Delhi media head and spokesperson Naveen Kumar Jindal tweeted this photo and wrote that “pro-terrorist” Hurriyat leaders were jailed and here was a young man who wanted them to be released. His tweet had been liked 1,100 times and garnered more than 300 retweets at the time of writing. (Archive link<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Twitter user @KaafirGyan also shared the image and accompanying claim in a tweet. (Archive link<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Kaafir V3.0 (@KaafirGyan) January 5, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This image is viral on Twitter<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>.
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Fact-check<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The bottom of the poster reads “Dal Khalsa Sad (Amritsar)”. Alt News performed a keyword search<\/a> using these terms and came across a story by The Tribune<\/a> dated December 5, 2019. It states that the Dal Khalsa and Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) were going to protest at Lal Chowk in Srinagar on the occasion of Human Rights Day on December 10, 2019.<\/p>\n

Based on this information, we investigated further and found an article by Khalsa Force<\/a>\u00a0from December 12, 2019. It reports that Dal Khalsa and Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) activists were stopped at the Pathankot border in Punjab on the Kathua District Magistrate’s orders. The man in the viral photo can be seen at several points in the video report<\/a> embedded in the article.<\/p>\n