This Video Is Unrelated to the Killing of Christian Student Deborah Samuel
The Claim
The video shows Muslim students beating Christian student Deborah Samuel on May 12, accusing her of making "blasphemous" statements about Prophet Mohammed in a WhatsApp group.
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Social media accounts and verified Twitter accounts have circulated a video of men beating a woman to death, claiming it depicts the May 12 killing of Christian student Deborah Samuel after she made "blasphemous" statements about Prophet Mohammed in a WhatsApp group.
Misbar’s Analysis
Misbar has investigated the claim and found it to be misleading. There is no link between the video and the murder of the Christian student.
2021 Clip Shared as Recent
Using Google Advanced Search, our team discovered that the video is old and was posted to social media platforms on August 28, 2021. According to a Facebook post, the video was shared because "a woman in Kaduna State was caught red-handed kidnapping children and keeping them in her house for months."
The woman, according to the Facebook user, was trafficking the children to the eastern part of Nigeria in order to sell them.
A Student Killed in Sokoto, Nigeria
Many protests broke out in Sokoto, Nigeria, after students beat the Christian student Deborah Samuel to death and burned her on May 12, 2022, accusing her of posting “blasphemous” statements about the Prophet Mohammed on a WhatsApp group.
Protesters took to the streets after two students were arrested and other suspects in Samuel's murder video were investigated.
The Nigerian state government of Sokoto has declared an immediate 24-hour curfew to quell protests calling for the suspects' release.
It is worth mentioning that the country of Nigeria is divided into Christian south areas and Muslim north regions.
