Old Video of Kuwait Protest Shared With Claim of Blast in Saudi
The posts along the old video falsely claimed that an explosion took place at the Halal Disco in Saudi Arabia.
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CLAIM
A viral video on social media is being circulated with the claim that an explosion happened at the Halal Disco in Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah on the night of Friday, 26 July. It shows people trying to escape a room filled with smoke.
The video has been widely shared on Facebook with the same claim.
The viral claim along the video reads as “Explosion last night at the Halal Disco in Jeddah Saudi Arabia. Many deaths and many injuries. Total ban on media to share it !!”
TRUE OR FALSE?
This video is not from an explosion at Halal Disco in Jeddah, rather it’s an old clip that dates back to July 2014. It is from a protest that was held in Kuwait and the Kuwaiti police fired tear gas to disperse the protesters.
WHAT WE FOUND OUT
On conducting a simple Google reverse image search, we found several tweets by users claiming the incident took place in 2014 in Kuwait.
While digging further, we searched for protests in Kuwait in that year and found the same video dating back to July 2014 uploaded on YouTube.
This video, however did not carry the commentary in Arabic like it did in the viral video.
Reports of the protest were also carried by Al Jazeera and Associated Press.
According to the reports, on 6 July 2014, Kuwaiti police fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse hundreds of protesters in the capital demanding the release of Musallam al-Barrak.
Over 2,000 people had marched from Kuwait’s Grand Mosque where police broke up the demonstration.
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