The American arm of the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera network was apparently caught airing the death of a Muslim Brotherhood-backed protester in the streets of Egypt - but it was faked.
The Qatar-owned news station that just launched in the United States covered what its reporters claimed was a shot man with a bloodied shirt dying in the streets earlier this week.
The video footage showed an Arab woman screaming and a man in prostrate position, holding a red-splashed stain on his shirt.
According to the Washington Times, FSA Crimes, a non-profit that tracks alleged war crimes in Syria, subsequently reported that the incident was faked.
On its website, the group described the scene that the man was lying covered in blood as his hand rests on what seemed like the source of that blood - a gunshot wound.
Doctors' surrounded him as he laid there, eyes shut and face frozen.
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One of the 'doctors' then decides to lift the man's shirt up and to the viewers' big surprise, there was no wound underneath the shirt.
The FSA site stated that the supposed victim then 'effortlessly re-positions his legs in way of the camera'.
The Al-Jazeera's cameraman then quickly cuts to a different scene.
According to the report, Al-Jazeera has been accused on previous occasions of airing reports that are biased and in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood, and FSA said the latest video is just further proof of that bias.
