Woman’s Assault Video Shared With ‘Love Jihad’ Context is From Pak

The incident is actually from Pakistan’s Karachi.

CLAIM

A video of a woman being assaulted by her husband has been widely circulated by social media users under the title of “Love Jihad”.

The caption of the video in question claims how the woman was beaten and forced to consume urine after she was “lured” into love Jihad abuse. It also claimed she was trapped by seven guys after she started following Muslims on social media app Tik Tok.

The 45-second clip, which shows brutality against the woman, went viral on both Twitter and Facebook.

The viral caption says “एक और मोहतरमा लव जिहाद में गई। और इनको मारा पीटा गया पेसाब पिलाई गई। ये सेक्युलर थी और बोलती थी ये बहुत अछे होते है tik tok पर सभी मुस्लिमों को करती थी follow वही से इन्हें फँसाया गया। 7 लड़कों ने.”

It loosely translates to: A woman went into love Jihad. She was beaten and was forced to drink urine. She was secular and used to say they (Muslims) are very nice. She followed many Muslims on Tik Tok where she was trapped by seven men.

A longer version of the video was circulated on Facebook in which the woman is shown narrating her ordeal and blames her husband and mother-in-law for torturing her.

WHAT IS THE TRUTH?

The video is of an incident from Pakistan's Karachi.

On breaking the video into key frames using InVid, a video verification platform, and conducting Google reverse image search, led us to a report by Samaa, a Pakistani news website.

According to the 13 August report, the woman in the video is a Pakistani-Italian and the incident was initially tweeted by a Pakistani journalist Iqrar-ul-Hassan.

معافی چاہتا ہوں کہ یہ ویڈیو اس حالت میں آپ تک پہنچائے بغیر اس پاکستانی نژاد اطالوی لڑکی کے شوہر کی بربریت کا اندازہ نہیں ہو سکتا تھا، اس بدبخت کی اس سے بھیانک ویڈیوز موجود ہیں۔ لڑکی کے مطابق اس کے بااثر شوہر کا نام علی جابر موتی ہے تاہم میں لڑکی کی شناخت دانستاََ چھپا رہا ہوں۔ pic.twitter.com/jtzvB6Bjli

— Iqrar ul Hassan Syed (@iqrarulhassan) August 12, 2019

Hassan also tweeted out a photo of the FIR against the woman's husband Ali Jabir Moti.

حیرت کے کچھ لوگ اس حیوانیت پر بھی اگر مگر کر رہے ہیں، بہر حال علی جابر موتی کے خلاف کراچی کے تھانے درخشاں میں مقدمہ درج کر لیا گیا ہے۔ اور جن لوگوں کے خیال میں یہ ویڈیو اَپ لوڈ نہیں کی جانی چاہئے تھی، کاش وہ جان سکتے ملزم کون ہے اور کتنا بااثر ہے https://t.co/30rxuvQ6xH pic.twitter.com/EZJRbsgV1T

— Iqrar ul Hassan Syed (@iqrarulhassan) August 13, 2019

After a user tagged Italian Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo in Hassan's tweet, he took cognisance of the matter the same day.

As concerns this horrible episode thank you to everyone who has chipped in with info. All details are now known and proceeding quickly through our Consulate in Karachi to verify with police in Karachi to end this horrific treatment. Authorities extremely responsive. https://t.co/CmetUAl6z8

— Stefano Pontecorvo (@pontecorvoste) August 13, 2019

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