A video of a man being assaulted in a room has been shared thousands of times in social media posts that falsely claim the victim belonged to China's minority Muslim Uyghur community and had been attacked for praying in public. The clip -- which has been shared repeatedly alongside various false claims -- is in fact from an incident involving a monetary dispute at a loan company in Thailand in 2020, not China.

Warning: violent footage

The video was shared here on Twitter on June 27, 2023, where it was retweeted more than 3,000 times.

The 20-second video shows a kneeling man being kicked repeatedly by another person.

"Prayers and religious practices are not allowed in public places in China. A Muslim Uyghur was brutally thrashed by a man from another community while offering namaz in a public place in China," the Hindi-language caption reads.

Namaz refers to obligatory prayers performed by Muslims.

An estimated one million Uyghurs, Hui and other Muslim minorities have been detained in China's western Xinjiang region since 2017 under a government campaign that the United States and rights groups have called a genocide (archived link). Beijing denies the accusations, describing the facilities as vocational centres designed to curb extremism.

Screenshot of the false post taken on July 5, 2023

India's minority Muslim community have also faced a rising number of vigilante attacks by Hindu mobs emboldened under the rule of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his nationalist...

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