Video claiming people chanted ‘Sheikh Hasina’ in Dhanmondi uses Indian footage and manipulated audio
A video has recently spread on the social media platform TikTok with the claim that people raised slogans in the name of the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhanmondi. However, Dismislab’s fact-check found that the video is from a recent student movement in New Delhi, India, showing a clash between protesters and law enforcement forces. Audio of the “Sheikh Hasina” slogan was added to the original video before being spread.
A video was posted from a TikTok account named “Amra Shobai Mujib Soinik” (We Are All Soldiers of Mujib). In it, the slogan “Sheikh Hasina, Sheikh Hasina” can be heard being chanted. Text within the video reads, “Sheikh Hasina Sheikh Hasina slogan being chanted in Dhanmondi Sheikh Hasina will come Bangladesh will smile everyone share the video Joy Bangla Joy Bangabandhu” [verbatim]. In the video, a person is heard saying, “Viewers can see the slogan of Sheikh Hasina Sheikh Hasina being raised in Dhanmondi.”
By the time this report was published, the post had been shared more than 1,200 times, and the video had been viewed more than 200,000 times. In the comments, one person wrote, “The return of the Awami League cannot be stopped by any means.” Another wrote, “The BNP was not out in the field during the July movement, now let’s see them try to stop this.”
On the other hand, some are commenting that the video is old.
Conducting a reverse image search using keyframes from the video, Dismislab found a video report published on the YouTube channel of the India-based media outlet Times Now. At the 24th second of the report, a video clip can be seen playing. The scene at its 31-second mark matches the video spread with the Dhanmondi claim. In addition, multiple people, including their clothing, in a video report by the Indian media outlet NDTV matches in the recently circulated video.
These reports, published on July 23, 2026, reveal that on the night of July 22, a clash occurred between protesters and security forces centered around an ongoing student movement at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. In this situation, police carried out a baton charge and fired tear gas shells to disperse the crowd. The protesters visible in the original video are not heard chanting the slogan “Sheikh Hasina.”
That is to say, the video spread with the claim that slogans were being chanted in the name of Sheikh Hasina in Dhanmondi is from New Delhi, India. The “Sheikh Hasina” slogan has been added to a video of a recent student movement.
All social media captions, quotations, and news excerpts in this article have been translated into English from the languages in which they were originally posted or published.
