The Chinese supreme court OK’d euthanasia for 20,000 people.
It shows an article by "City News", headlined “China seek for court’s approval to kill the over 20,000 coronavirus patients to avoid further spread of the virus”., The text reads, in part: “The highest level of court in Chhina, Supreme People’s Court, is expected to give an approval on Friday February 7\xa0for the mass killing of coronavirus patients in China as sure means of controlling the spread of the deadly virus.”, The novel coronavirus, which emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019 has killed at least 1000 people\xa0and infected some 42,000 others in China alone, AFP reported here on February 11, 2020., Below is a screenshot of the misleading post:, The post\s Tagalog-language caption translates to English as: "Ayyyy This is too much .... it\s really euthanasia ... tsk tsk ...", AFP found the original article seen in the misleading post published\xa0here\xa0on a website entitled "City News"\xa0on February 6, 2020., Below is a screenshot of the report:, The "City News" article was also shared here on Twitter and here on Reddit alongside a similar claim., The story was also shared by Lagos-based\xa0newspaper Independent Nigeria\xa0on its social media platforms\xa0here and here. The claim also appeared online here in Kenya, as well as here and here in Spain., The claim is false; the Chinese Supreme Court did not make any such judgement on February 7., The website where the claim appeared, ab-tc.com, has a history of producing\xa0hoax reports., AFP Fact Check has previously debunked a number of stories from the website, including a series of articles from August 2019 that falsely claimed that police thwarted mass shootings in several US cities, and an article published July 2019 claiming a nightclub in Canada was shut down for selling human meat., All the articles on the website fact checked by AFP were published with the byline “Local Correspondent”, suggesting no direct attribution of stories to specific authors., Ab-tc.com\xa0does not have an “About Us” section with details of who is running the platform. There is also no disclaimer labelling its contents as fiction or\xa0satire., A search of Whois, a public database of domain name registration details, found that the website’s domain was registered in Guangdong China with aUS-based Wild West Domains on June 14, 2019., Below is a screenshot of the results:, AFP conducted keyword searches on the state-run China Internet Information Center on the proposed government plans, but found no results that matched the claim., China’s Supreme People’s Court website also does not mention any related hearings., Below is a screenshot of the Chinese Supreme Court website’s scheduled hearings section. None of the cases are related to the novel coronavirus:, The purported court case is also not among the daily situation reports of the World Health Organization., The false euthanasia in China claim was also debunked by fact-checking websites Snopes and Africa Check., , Copyright © AFP 2017-2020.  All rights reserved.  Users can access and consult this website and use the share features available for personal, private, and non-commercial purposes.  Any other use, in particular any reproduction, communication to the public or distribution of the content of this website, in whole or in part, for any other purpose and/or by any other means, without a specific licence agreement signed with AFP, is strictly prohibited.  The subject matter depicted or included via links within the Fact Checking content is provided to the extent necessary for correct understanding of the verification of the information concerned.  AFP has not obtained any rights from the authors or copyright owners of this third party content and shall incur no liability in this regard.  AFP and its logo are registered trademarks.
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