Awami League blockade scene from 2025, not today
A video has circulated on Facebook claiming that leaders and activists of the Awami League have blockaded the Bhanga highway in Faridpur today on the occasion of a strike called by the banned organization Chhatra League (student wing of the Awami League). However, a fact-check reveals that the video is a scene of a highway blockade during a lockdown called by the activity-banned Awami League on November 13 last year.
Today, November 10, a video was posted on Facebook from a profile named “Rokte Kena Ekattor” (Seventy-One Bought with Blood). The caption read, “Today, strike by Awami League leaders and activists blockading the Faridpur Bhanga highway.” In the video, a group of individuals is seen protesting with indigenous weapons in their hands. The video was also promoted with the same claim from another Facebook profile.
To verify the authenticity, searching with keyframes brings up a report published by Kalbela on November 13, 2025. The headline of the report was, “AL’s [Awami League’s] showdown with weapons on highway, vehicular movement halted.” The report stated, “Centering on the lockdown program announced by the activity-banned Awami League, blockades have been set up at multiple locations on the Dhaka-Khulna highway and Barishal highway in Bhanga upazila (sub-district) of Faridpur.” The image used in this report shows an exact match with the scenes of the circulated video. Besides, multiple news reports (1, 2, 3) referred to the scene as a scene of the lockdown called by the Awami League on November 13.
That is to say, the scene of the highway blockade in Faridpur during the lockdown called by the Awami League last year is circulating with the claim of today’s program. It is to be noted that Dismislab has published a fact-check report regarding the fake claim of a scene of the November 10 strike by the banned organization Chhatra League.
