Polygraph
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![Reza Jalali]()
Reza Jalali
Head of Iran's Passive Defense Organization
"The crimes of the Europeans in the chemical attack on our country and even on the Iraqis themselves, like in the case of Halabja, were not sued in any courts.”
Read more...Hundreds of Western companies were investigated for supplying Iraq’s chemical weapons program. Key figures were convicted and imprisoned for war crimes. -
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Sergey Lavrov
Russian foreign minister
In schools in a number of Western countries, children are convinced as part of their curriculum that Jesus Christ was bisexual.”
Read more...There’s no evidence of such a curriculum in Western schools. Lavrov may have been referencing a TikTok video. -
![Maria Zakharova]()
Maria Zakharova
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson
"The Black Sea area is consistently being turned by Washington and its allies from the area of cooperation … into a zone of military confrontation. This is done deliberately so that another region of the world under the lead of the United States would become unstable.”
Read more...Several NATO member states and allies border the Black Sea. Russia’s is present there only due to its illegal occupation of Crimea. -
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Ebrahim Raisi
President of Iran
"This branch (the judiciary) supports the freedom of the press. The judiciary sees the media as its colleagues and does not oppose fair criticism."
Read more...As a member and later head of Iran’s judiciary, Raisi embraced a system that prosecuted and executed journalists and others in political courts. -
![Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing]()
Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing
Military leader, Myanmar
“[T]he protesters cause fear in the local population, thus preventing people from leading normal lives in the country. They cause fear … they are destroying the image of the current government.”
Read more...Moscow gives Myanmar strongman a stage to distort the coup and military crackdown as the country flirts with civil war. -
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Dmitry Peskov
Russian Presidential spokesman
"Russian military advisers could by no means participate in murders and killings, and they did not participate in them. It is another lie."
Read more...Allegations against Russian mercenary troops in the Central African Republic arose in March and rely on witnesses and photographic evidence. -
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Nikolai Patrushev
Secretary of the Russian Security Council
“Fighting side by side, our troops and Syrian troops dealt a powerful blow to the terrorists, who were planning to create a global caliphate in Eurasia. … Russians, together with the brotherly nation of Syria, did not just fight for the future of Syria, they fought for the whole world that terrorists were acting against.”
Read more...Though Islamic State was one target, Russia went into Syria to protect besieged ally Bashar al-Assad. A U.S.-led coalition and Kurds pushed IS from northeast Syria and Iraq. -
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China's State Council Information Office
“Over the past century, the CPC has invested a huge effort in human rights protection, adding significantly to global human rights progress.”
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![Viktor Orban]()
Viktor Orban
Prime Minister, Hungary
“I am a fighter for their rights … I am defending the rights of the homosexual guys, but this law is not about that.”
Read more...Orban's parliament recently adopted a law that rights groups, the United States and European Union leaders say discriminates against the LGTBQ community. -
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David Kurten
Leader of the U.K. Heritage Party
“There should be no coercion to take an injection of experimental gene modification technology by implementing travel apartheid.”
Read more...Some COVID-19 vaccines use gene technology to create immunity from disease, but scientists say this process does not alter human DNA. -
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Russian Defense Ministry
“At 12:06 and 12:08, the border guard patrol ship conducted warning fire. At 12:19, a Su-24M plane carried out preventing bombing (four OFAB-250 bombs) along the route of the guided missile destroyer Defender.”
Read more...The HMS Defender reported no such incident, no evidence was provided, and Russia has made similar false claims in the past. -
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Carrie Lam
Hong Kong chief executive
“What we are talking about is not exchanging views between foreigners and journalists. It is violating the law as defined in the national security law and based on very clear evidence which will bring the case to court.”
Read more...The pro-democracy publication’s owner and top editor are all charged under a sweeping National Security Law that censors free speech.
