Anti-Hijab protests rocked Iran after Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman died after being detained by the morality police. Amidst this, pictures of a few women protesting naked are being circulated online, claiming that it shows recent visuals from Iran. Some users also shared the video of the protest.
Facebook users are sharing the images with the text: Anti Hijab Protest….
Now Escalated to a Topless Protest in Iran 🇮🇷 From Removing of Hijab to Throwing of Hijab to Burning of Hijab to Cleaning of Shoes by Hijab. From Opening of Face to Opening of Breasts to Opening of Waist, It will now be straight to Bottomless to No-clothes tomorrow. Wait for more to come. Iranian Heroines will Lead the World Muslim Ladies to a #Hijab_se_Azadi, #Burqa_se_Barbadi Domain.
Here’s the link to the above post.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the post and found the images to be old.
We put the pictures through a Reverse Image Search and found multiple reposts in Spanish from 2019 where similar visuals were shared.
According to the article, the images are from a protest that took place in Chile. the article also mentioned that the large figure represented Chilean President Sebastián Piñera who can be seen controlling a police officer. The articles can be read here, here and here.
In the articles, it was mentioned that the protest took place in front of the ‘Catholic University’ in Chile. We then ran a search on Google Maps and found the same building that could be seen in the backgrounds of the pictures and videos in circulation.
We also compared the building pictures to the Building on Google maps and found them to be the same.
Hence, it is clear that a 2019 protest video from Chile is falsely being linked to the recent Anti- Hijab protest In Iran.
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