Fact Check: Is the video of the shackled prisoner from Sednaya Jail? Know the truth of the claim

New Delhi: The rule of the Assad family has ended in the country after nearly 50 years after former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad left the country. Pictures of people celebrating are also going viral on social media. Along with this, prisoners who have been in jail for many years are also being released. Meanwhile, a video has gone viral on social media. While sharing it, it was claimed that this is a video of Sednaya Jail. Where the soul becomes free before the prisoners. However, during Sajjak’s investigation, this claim was proved to be false.

What did the users claim?

An ex-user @f1__sa posted a picture and a video on social media. The users posted the picture and video and claimed in Urdu that inside the Sednaya prison, where souls die before they die, a horrifying sight has emerged – a man looking like a skeleton with no trace of life visible from his/her face. There is no trace left. This prisoner is not just a number in the list of prisoners, but a living proof of the depth of pain which cannot be expressed in words.

Another user @grintinytoes55 also posted a video claiming that a horrifying scene has emerged in the gruesome cells of Sednaya prison. A skeleton-like person, whose eyes have lost the sparkle of life. he/she is not just a prisoner, but living proof of the fallen state of humanity.

What was found in the investigation?

When Sajjag’s team extracted the keyframes of the viral video on social media and checked it in reverse image, some other posts were also found. Who are saying that this video is of Sednaya Jail only. However, when the picture of the prisoner seen in this video was checked with Google Lens, the truth of this video came to light. Actually, this picture and video of the prisoner going viral on social media is not from Sednaya Jail. Actually, this picture is of the War Remnants Museum located in Ho Chi Minh city of Vietnam. This picture was also posted on Getty Images in the year 2017. see Post

Along with this, Sajjag’s team has also published a website named War History Online. Report Also found. In which this picture has been explained in detail. According to that report, a painful history has been brought to life in the War Remnants Museum located in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Here there is a reconstruction of a cell called the Tiger Cage, which was used to keep political prisoners. During the summer season, five to fourteen prisoners were crammed into this small cage, which increased their suffering even more. A photograph taken by Anthony Devlin illustrates this horrific situation.

Sajjak’s team further investigated and found a 10-year-old YouTube video uploaded on a YouTube channel named Jimmy Bamis. In which this picture is visible. The title of that video is-War Remnants Museum in Saigon Vietnam

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conclusion: In Sajjak’s investigation, the viral video is not from Sednaya Jail. This video and picture is of the Tiger Cage inside the War Remnants Museum located in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The video is being shared on social media with misleading claims.