Polygraph
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![Faisal Mekdad]()
Faisal Mekdad
Syrian foreign minister
“Western countries are hindering [refugees’] return so they can use them to put political pressure on Syria. These countries are using the pain of every Syrian refugee outside their homeland to serve their political ends.”
Read more...Millions of refugees from the Syrian civil war have no guarantee of a safe return. Rights groups have documented violent abuses against those who try. -
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Xie Zhenhua
China's Special Envoy for Climate Change
“If you look at the story (of power plant outages) from another perspective, it's a reflection of Chinese effort and seriousness to adjust our energy structure and limit the use of coal.”
Read more...In fact, coal shortages were behind China’s recent string of power plant outages. China is actually producing the most coal in six years. -
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Xi Jinping
“Since the founding of the People's Republic, China has never started a single war or conflict, and has never taken one inch of land from other countries.”
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![Sergey Shoigu]()
Sergey Shoigu
Russia’s defense minister
“We have actually successfully tested a promising system. It struck the old satellite with surgical precision. The resulting fragments do not pose any threat to space activities."
Read more...Evidence shows that some 1,500 chunks of debris from the Russian anti-satellite missile hit endangered space station astronauts, including Russia’s own. -
![Hassan Nasrallah]()
Hassan Nasrallah
secretary-general of Hezbollah
“Are we dominating the [Lebanese] state? This is the biggest lie in Lebanon and the region. It is the same lie as the lie of an Iranian occupation. Iran, which allegedly occupies Lebanon, cannot enter a diesel ship on the oil refineries in Lebanon. What is this empty, ridiculous and frivolous talk? Whoever says it, whether Lebanese or Saudi, or whoever he is, this is a flimsy and weak claim.”
Read more...Nasrallah has bragged about Hezbollah’s role in delivering Iranian fuel to Lebanon via Syria, sidestepping Lebanese government approval and evading U.S. sanctions. -
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Alexander Lukashenko
president of Belarus
“We are heating Europe. They are still threatening us that they will close the border. And if we shut off natural gas there?”
Read more...Belarus does not heat Europe; it simply transits natural gas from Russia. Experts say Lukashenko could never shut the pipeline without the Kremlin’s approval. -
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Chen Weihua
China Daily EU bureau chief/columnist
"Most people assumed only big nations bully small ones. But in the case of Vietnam in 1979, it was Vietnam which provoked multiple times (bullied China). That was why China decided to teach it a lesson.”
Read more...The claim obscures the history of the bloody Sino-Vietnamese war in 1979. China invaded with 200,000 troops but soon pulled out with heavy losses. -
![Khalid bin Bandar Al Saud]()
Khalid bin Bandar Al Saud
Saudi Ambassador to the U.K.
"Saudi Arabia aims to limit climate change and combat it effectively, which is a unified goal for the international community."
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![Gen. Min Aung Hlaing]()
Gen. Min Aung Hlaing
Myanmar military ruler
“More than 11 million ballots were wrongly counted in the election across the nation in scrutinizing the voter lists. Voting fraud is the worst in the democracy.”
Read more...Myanmar’s military junta never provided proof to back election fraud claims prior its coup in February 2021. -
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Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service
“The information published in the media about the inmate Trevor Reed’s hunger strike does not correspond with the reality. … He is taking food according to the daily schedule.”
Read more...Reed’s lawyer confirmed to Polygraph.info that her client, a former U.S. Marine, told his Russian jailers he would start a hunger strike on November 4. -
![Sergey Lavrov]()
Sergey Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister
“Yesterday, in some political science discussions, they asked: Why, when refugees came from Turkey to the European Union, the EU allocated funding so they stay on the territory of the Republic of Turkey? Why is it also impossible to help Belarusians who have certain needs so that refugees, whom Poland and Lithuania do not want to let on their territory, live in normal conditions?”
Read more...Belarus has been luring and flying in Middle Eastern migrants to send them to the Polish and Lithuanian borders. -
![Shen Shiwei]()
Shen Shiwei
International news editor, China Global
“New pictures of last June's #Galwan clash emerged on social media, showing surrendered Indian soldiers captured by Chinese PLA.”
Read more...While the timing of their release is curious, attempts to debunk photos of captured Indian soldiers fall short.
