FAKE: Professor Berhanu Nega has not been killed.
FAKE: Professor Berhanu Nega has not been killed.
An altered image is used to support this claim while the original image was taken as a screenshot from an interview video.
A Facebook post claiming that Professor Berhanu Nega is killed is FALSE.
The viral post claims that Professor Berhanu Nega was killed. It is illustrated by his supposed image with a bleeding face from the mouth.
A reverse image search did not return any credible results of a bleeding face from the mouth except for some similar claims attached to the image in question as seen here.
According to the forensically beta photo forensic tool, the image of blood on his face shows that there is a high probability that it could be altered. The clothes he was wearing and the camera angle on which the image was taken indicate that the image may have been taken from this interview video. when Berhanu, the leader of the Ethiopian Citizens for Social Justice Party (EZEMA), announced, in December 2020, the preparation for the June 2021 elections, and they plan to compete in 435 out of 547 election districts.
However, Arts Tv has discovered, that no evidence has been found to support the claim that Professor Berhanu was killed.
On the day this Facebook post was posted, Berhanu attended the graduation ceremony of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces in Bulbula military training camp. He also spoke at the graduation ceremony of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces at Bulbula Training Center.
Professor Berhanu Nega is an Ethiopian politician and academic, an economics professor who has been involved in Ethiopia’s opposition from the late 70s until today. In 2017, he was a rebel coordinating attacks against Ethiopian soldiers from his base across the border in Eritrea and faced a death penalty at home.
Arts TV has looked into a Facebook post with an image claiming the leader of the EZEMA party Professor Berhanu Nega is killed and found it to be FALSE.
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