A video showing two uniformed men taking away a man wearing a skull cap with his hands joined together and head facing the ground in public is being shared on social media platforms.
The claim: Those sharing have claimed that the Bangladesh police arrested a Muslim cleric or Imam for offering prayers on the road and compared it to India, where there have been repeated controversies over offering namaz on the streets.
(Archives of similar claims can be found here and here.)
Is this true?: The claim is misleading.
The cleric was arrested by the police for leading funeral prayers for students killed during the recent protests over government job quotas in Munshiganj, Bangladesh.
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What we found: We divided the video into multiple screenshots and ran a Google reverse image search on some of them.
These results showed us the same video uploaded by TRT World on their official YouTube page on 19 July.
It was uploaded with the title, "Bangladesh police detain Imam leading funeral prayers." The description also read similarly.
Similarly, the results also showed us a report by Al Jazeera from 18 July. It also included the same video as the viral clip. The report also stated that the cleric was arrested for offering funeral prayers for students who died during the recent demonstrations.
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