QUESTION

Does the circulating photograph show Sheikh Hasina at the 5 August 2026 New Delhi press-club appearance?

CONTRADICTED as a photograph of the 5 August 2026 New Delhi appearance. AFP Fact Check (20 August 2026) reports a reverse-image match to a 20 December 2022 Awami League post from Dhaka. Duplios compiled that public record; it did not independently retrieve the 2022 file.

The claim under test is a place-and-date claim about one image, not a claim about whether Hasina spoke in Delhi. AFP published that remarks were audio/virtual and that the circulating garden photograph is an older Dhaka picture. One independent contradicting branch is recorded (AFP). The 2022 Facebook original is cited-not-retrieved and is not counted as a second Duplios retrieval.

EVIDENCE REQUIREMENTS

• R1 · Original / earliest known source · ADDRESSED

  Later republications are not independent. Addressed in this demonstration from cited public records.

• R2 · Location evidence · ADDRESSED

  Claimed place must be independently checkable. Addressed in this demonstration from cited public records.

• R3 · Date/time evidence · ADDRESSED

  Old media reposted as current is a common failure. Addressed in this demonstration from cited public records.

• R4 · Media provenance · ADDRESSED

  Capture device, upload path, credentials if any. Addressed in this demonstration from cited public records.

• R5 · Independent corroboration · ADDRESSED

  A second independence group, not a reprint. Addressed in this demonstration from cited public records.

• R6 · Manipulation analysis · ADDRESSED

  Indicators only — not a fake/real verdict. Addressed in this demonstration from cited public records.

PRIMARY EVIDENCE CARDS

INDEPENDENT CORROBORATION

• Independent support branches: 0
• Independent contradict branches: 1
• Engine: At least one independent contradicting branch; no independent support remains.

LINEAGE

• L-unknown-camera · unknown
• L-2022-fb ← L-unknown-camera · facebook.com
• L-2026-social ← L-2022-fb · facebook.com
• L-afp ← L-2022-fb · factcheck.afp.com

CONFLICTING

• AFP states the image is a years-old Dhaka photograph, not the Delhi event.

MISSING EVIDENCE

• 2022 Awami League file (pixels + post metadata)

  Why: Would let Duplios confirm AFP's match without relying on one secondary.

  How to obtain: Archive the cited Facebook post; compare perceptual hash to the circulating file.

• Original camera file

  Why: Capture time and device remain unknown.

  How to obtain: Photographer or party archive; not a social screenshot.

WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS FINDING

• Retrieval of the 2022 file showing it is a different photograph.
• Contemporaneous photos of the Delhi appearance that match this garden scene.
• Evidence that AFP compared the wrong image.

CHALLENGES

• NONE_FILED: Demonstration compile. Challenge this finding is open.

TIMELINE

• 2026-09-02T00:00:00.000Z — Demonstration report compiled from cited public records.
• 2026-09-02T00:00:00.000Z — evaluateCase run on recorded facts. No silent rewrite.

LIMITATIONS

• DEMONSTRATION compiled from a public fact-check. Not a Duplios field investigation.
• Political / reputational subject. Human review advised before any publication use.
• One retrieved independence group. Cited-not-retrieved items are not second confirmations.

METHODOLOGY

Duplios Proof of Evidence Standard v0.1 (Duplios methodology — not an ISO, accredited, or industry-consensus standard). A question is decomposed into evidence requirements. Sources are recorded with independence groups and lineage. Copies that share an origin are one confirmation. Contradiction is searched, not assumed absent. AI output, detector scores, missing EXIF, and missing C2PA credentials are evidence or absences — not truth. evaluateCase returns SUPPORTED, CONTRADICTED, INSUFFICIENT_EVIDENCE, or HUMAN_REVIEW_REQUIRED. UNKNOWN stays UNKNOWN. A report hash identifies the bytes of this version; it does not prove the finding is true.

AUDIT TRAIL

• standard=0.1.0
• evaluateCase.state=CONTRADICTED
• public.state=CONTRADICTED
• no_automatic_network_fetch_at_runtime
• demonstration_not_customer_case_study
• sha256=ab6ae205d94d2d425d7b5606ecb68855af37494276b253096cbe0cb1c189167a

SOURCES

• S1 · SECONDARY · AFP Fact Check · group factcheck.afp.com
  Years-old photo of Sheikh Hasina falsely linked to India speech
  https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.C4WU9ZR
  Retrieved 2026-09-02. Author byline: Eyamin Sajid, AFP Bangladesh. Published 20 August 2026.
• S2 · CITED_NOT_RETRIEVED · Awami League (as cited) · group facebook.com
  Awami League Facebook post 20 December 2022 (Anne de Henning / Dhaka) — as cited by AFP
  No URL (cited, not retrieved)
  AFP reports a reverse-image match. Duplios did not open or archive the Facebook file.

MEDIA NOTES

• No EXIF was read. Absence of EXIF would not prove fakery.
• No C2PA credentials were inspected. Absence of C2PA would not prove fakery.
• No AI detector was run. A detector score would be an indicator only.

HUMAN REVIEW

Required=true · Blocks publication=false · CONFLICT_OR_POLITICAL, REPUTATIONAL