Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah, on 9^th August 2022 confirmed that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader, Shahbaz Gill, was arrested by the Islamabad police “in accordance with the law” on charges of sedition and inciting the public against the state institutions.

A video went viral on social media amid arrest of PTI key leader Shahbaz Gill claiming Gill was tortured brutally while in custody. A set of pictures and a video went viral showing bruises on Gill’s body.

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Debunked Source

M shocked and shattered by the torture, this is unacceptable,unlawful and inhumane. #ShahbazGill pic.twitter.com/uIp4qKtVQY

— Mudassir hussain (@MudassirSayyed) August 20, 2022

https://twitter.com/Raja17Zafar/status/1560633125574561792

Shahbaz Gill been tortured in @ICT_Police custody. Question who @OfficialDGISPR torture him.#ہم_سب_غدار_ہیں_اس_حکومت_کے pic.twitter.com/bovqkalyKz

— S A KHAN YOUSAFZAI (@SAKHANYOUSUFZA1) August 18, 2022

Fact-check

In order to verify the claim, we performed a reverse image search. Reverse image search found a longer version of the same video, the person in the video is not Shahbaz Gill. In the video shared below, face is visible and it is evident that this person is not Shahbaz Gill. Social media users cropped the video and posted the part where his face was not visible to link it with Shahbaz Gill. 

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Source

https://twitter.com/MixedFruit19/status/1560979410534420480

Rating

False Context/ Misleading

Conclusion

Our fact-check confirmed that the video of an irrelevant person was shared as the video of Shahbaz Gill with a false context in order to mislead the general public.

ABCDE Framework-Based Analysis 

Actor	Multiple twitter accounts affiliated with Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf are involved in spreading misinformation on social media.
Behavior	A video on social media claims that Shahbaz Gill is brutally tortured in custody.
Content	Social Media posts.
Degree	The content is being spread to promote PTI narrative of brutal torture on Shahbaz Gill. Target audience is supporters of PTI. The video is not forged or inauthentic, but irrelevant to Gill. Moreover, no synthetic means are being used to make the content viral.
Effect	The shared video is being circulated to mislead the audience and portray that the police is brutally torturing Shahbaz Gill, it gained sympathy of PTI supporters, social media users also criticized the government for stooping so low.