A video of a Muslim woman in Russia being assaulted by her family members for trying to elope with her boyfriend is being shared on social media with the false claim that a Muslim woman in the United States was beaten up for dating a non-Muslim man.
BOOM found that the viral video is from July 2021 in Krasnodar, Russia when a Muslim woman was assaulted by her family members for trying to elope with her boyfriend. A close friend of the girl seen in the viral video confirmed to BOOM that the man she was trying to elope with was also a Muslim and that the video is from Russia which she had uploaded on her Instagram page.
The video is being shared with the caption, "In US, Muslim girl gets beaten by brother for wanting to date non-Muslim guy"
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The same video is also being shared widely on Facebook with the false claim.
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BOOM found that the woman in the viral video - her family, and her boyfriend are all Muslims. The woman was assaulted in Krasnodar, Russia in July 2021 after she had tried to elope with her boyfriend, whose family and hers were not on good terms.
We broke the video into keyframes and ran them through the Russian search engine Yandex which search results showed the viral video carried by some Russian websites.
According to Life.ru, the woman seen in the viral video was assaulted by her relatives in Krasnodar, Russia after she had tried to elope with her boyfriend. The report further stated that she had fallen in love with a boy from...
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