Pages and accounts on social media circulated a statement attributed to Syrian Interior Ministry spokesman Noureddine al-Baba, claiming he commented on the recent protests by describing the participants as remnants of the ousted regime, and saying the revolutionaries had not come out because they stand alongside the state.
The fact-checking team reviewed the media sources covering the protests as well as the published statements of the Interior Ministry spokesman, and found no coverage containing these words or attributing them to him. The statement also did not appear in the ministry available official sources, confirming that the claim lacks any reliable evidence that it was ever made.
Why is this claim false?
Fabricated statements: The claim rested on attributing words that were never issued by the Interior Ministry spokesman and that appear in no official or media source, circulated as though they were an official position on the recent protests, to suggest that official bodies describe the participants as remnants of the ousted regime.
