Days after a deadly attack at an Afghan educational centre, multiple social media posts shared a photo of a woman protester marching against the violence alongside another photo they claimed shows a man disguised in women's clothes who joined the demonstration. However, the photo of the man in a burqa -- a form of Islamic clothing worn by some women -- has been shared in a misleading context; it shows a man who was arrested in connection with a kidnapping case in Pakistan in 2021.
Days after a deadly attack at an Afghan educational centre, multiple social media posts shared a photo of a woman protester marching against the violence alongside another photo they claimed shows a man disguised in women's clothes who joined the demonstration. However, the photo of the man in a burqa -- a form of Islamic clothing-- has been shared in a misleading context; it shows a man who was arrested in connection with a kidnapping case in Pakistan in 2021.
"Not a single protester has died due to the grief of the Hazaras, there are intelligent hands behind these demonstrations," reads a Pashto-language"This is an example in Herat where a man uses women's clothes to carry out the conspiracies of the enemies of Islam and the country. They have no shame!" The tweet contains one image of what appears to be a man dressed in a burqa and a second image of a woman being pulled by her hijab :authorities dispersed scores of women in Afghanistan's western city of Herat who were protesting against a suicide attackThe attack targeted the women’s section of a gender-segregated study hall in a neighbourhood that is home to the historically oppressed Shiite Muslim Hazara community, AFPOther posts claiming the image of the burqa-clad man shows a protester...