Guwahati: Amid the ongoing protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), photos claiming to be from detention centres in Assam are doing the rounds on social media.
The photos show half-naked men cramped in a room. Write-ups posted along with the photos suggest that this is the status of illegal immigrants who are lodged in detention camps in Assam.
On fact-checking, it was found that the images are not from Assam, in fact, they are not even from India. According to an article in Eltiempo, a Colombian daily, one of the pictures is a stock image which shows ‘Prisoners in preventive La Romana’.
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Meanwhile, PIB India also fact-checked the images and declared them as fake news.
Claim:
Images of so-called detention camps set-up by the Government in #Assam are doing the rounds of Social Media.Reality:
A simple reverse Image Search shows that these pictures are, from abroad, NOT from Assam or India.Conclusion: #FakeNews pic.twitter.com/fHk4gs1Yl5
— PIB India (@PIB_India) December 19, 2019
Please do not fall prey to such fake news, and always believe information only from reliable sources.