CNN News 18 and News Nation shared a graphic 4 year old video from Malaysia as recent from Pakistan.
A video of brutal beating of a man by cane is viral. CNN News-18, News Nation shared the video claiming it’s Pakistani driver being caned by Chinese in Karachi.
They all claimed that the people beating were Chinese Engineers working on CPEC Project (China–Pakistan Economic Corridor) in Karachi and the man they were beating was a Pakistani driver, reason of beating being, he submitted wrong bills.
CNN News-18
They deleted their tweet but archived here
Screen recording of the tweet –
News Nation
The source of this fake news which has been retweeted by approximately 8K people
Graphic Content : Chinese Engineer in Karachi caught on video beating Pakistani driver for submitting fake petrol bill.
Engineer from PowerChina Gansu Energy Co came to Pakistan under CPEC.
My Dear Pakistani brothers & sisters we must raise our voice against this this behaviour pic.twitter.com/SuJK72C1TS
— 🇵🇰Zaidu🇵🇰 (@TheZaiduLeaks) June 28, 2020
Sudhir Chaudhary (Editor In Chief, Zee News), quoted above tweet with a question that if this claim with the video is true, Pakistani Gov. should arrest the Chinese nationals or do they have courage to do so ?
If this is true Pakistani Govt should arrest this Chinese national. Do they have the courage? https://t.co/OvPTWgUNCL
— Sudhir Chaudhary (@sudhirchaudhary) June 29, 2020
Truth
This video is from Malaysia, Year 2016, not recent from Pakistan
The handle on which these news channels based their news on, which Sudhir Chaudhary quoted is a parody account itself claiming it is merely for fun.
The yellow T-shirt, the man looking over was wearing had a logo Berish-5 on it which is actually a pro-democracy Malasyian group
Tweeted in 2016
Dah mintak maaf pun kena pukul lagi dengan majikan tu. Besar pulak batang kayu tu. Kesian pulak admin kat pekerja asing ni haih. pic.twitter.com/ZqHU52XLOi
— Maukerja (@MauKerjaMY) November 28, 2016
This was also reported widely only by ‘Malaysian’ Mainstream news houses.
https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2016/11/28/huan-caning-viral-video
https://www.asiaone.com/malaysia/video-man-repeatedly-assaulted-bamboo-stick-goes-viral
http://www.mci.my/2016/11/video-of-man-repeatedly-assaulted-with.html
https://www.mstar.com.my/lokal/semasa/2016/11/29/polis-perlu-maklumat-lelaki-dipukul
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