A short video clip is circulating on Pakistani social media, claiming to show the horrific prison conditions in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
This claim is unfounded.
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On December 10, an X (formerly Twitter) user posted a 56-second video recording of an alleged prison in Pakistan where emaciated prisoners can be seen locked inside.
In the accompanying caption, the user implied that the prison shown in the video was in Pakistan, where Baloch and Pashtuns were held.
The post had garnered 42,000 views, 850 likes and 442 shares to date.
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The video clip is from a prison in Vietnam, not Pakistan.
Through a reverse image search, Geographic data verification discovered that the prison in the viral video is actually the Con Dao prison of the French era in Vietnam, which was converted into a war memorial in 1979.
Today, it contains life-size replicas of prisoners to give visitors an idea of the type of conditions in which political prisoners were kept at the facility, commonly known as “hell on earth.”
You can see some photos of Con Dao. here and here.
Furthermore, the video was verified and proven to be from Vietnam by AFP data verification. AFP He further spoke to the Con Dao board of directors, who confirmed that the footage was filmed in the French tiger cages located at the Con Dao Special National Relics Site.
AFP data verification can be read here.
