After Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan was jailed for three years in August 2023, a video was shared in multiple social media posts that falsely claimed it showed his supporters amassing on a road. While there were scattered protests following Khan's jailing for graft, the video in fact shows a protest from November 2022 after an attempt was made on the ousted leader's life.

"Faizabad at this moment. People will not accept it," reads the Urdu-language caption of a video shared on Facebook on August 5, 2023 by a user who says they are affiliated with the student wing of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party.

The video, which appears to show a crowd of protesters gathering on a road, was shared shortly after a court in Islamabad sentenced Khan to three years in jail for graft -- one of the more than 200 cases he has faced since being ousted as prime minister in a no-confidence vote in April 2022.

The jail term has ruled him out from contesting upcoming elections.

The reaction to Khan's jailing has been vastly different to the outpouring of rage that followed his first arrest in May -- which sparked deadly violence as his supporters took to the streets in the tens of thousands and clashed with police.

It also prompted a crackdown that saw almost all of the top leadership of his PTI party arrested or forced into hiding, leaving the party scrambling to set up a replacement decision-making body.

There were no reports of a protest in Faizabad by Khan's supporters...

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