Video Of Street Play Revived As Pathans Auctioning Woman On Street

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BOOM found that the video is of a street play by a Kurdish group called 'Compassion 4 Kurdistan' who tried to create an awareness about the slave trade practices in Iraq. According to a BBC report, the activists staged a mock auction of women at Leicester Square in London on October 14, 2014, to call out the atrocities by the terrorist organisation Islamic State. Newsweek also reported about the controversial protest met with some hostility during the three mock performances in London and in some cases, police had to secure actors from confrontations by pedestrians who were unaware about the event. The same video also went viral in 2021 with a false claim that it shows Taliban auctioning Afghan women. BOOM had debunked the video multiple times since 2018 when it was shared with different false claims.